“If I were asked what I gained all these years from my experience, I would say without hesitation: nothing! Acquired knowledge in art becomes immediately useless, like the dead. Painting is not secured by them. It is reinvented every day,” he had said in an interview with Athens Voice in 2010, where he also expressed his bitterness about Athenians’ relationship with art: “The necessity of art is occasional, if not nonexistent. When a theater, a bookstore, or a gallery closes, Athenians hardly notice. The closure of a clothing store or a fashionable restaurant causes embarrassment. Something like a small social void…”
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