Yes. I have been painting since I was five. I painted my families fights, animals and faces. Many drawings were made from pure observation. Then came poverty and the civil war that influenced me a lot. I painted tanks and peoples oval faces presenting horror and evil. You can’t paint something you have not met first hand. In Paris I also spent a period creating people with oval heads and flies on their tongues. Then I lived in a small room with no windows on the walls but one located in the ceiling where I use to climb on a chair and stuck my head out in order to see Paris. All these difficulties, to move to a large unknown city among strangers, made me perhaps do such works. But it was good. Later the dictatorship had passed. I painted women sitting in nice rooms crafted with more plasticity. I tried making scenes more pragmatic and tried to leave the shadows I knew oh so well”
Source: tovima.gr