Without any delay, the painter explains what it means to be an artist:
Everything is to be true and to know yourself. It leads you to an instinct where you say this is how I can paint, I can’t paint any other way. I think this is the truth of art, you create as you can and not as you have learned in any school: And that’s what he considers important in a teacher: “Tsarouchis was more than a teacher. He did not care to teach you what he did so you could imitate him, but instead he opened the way for you to discover it yourself “