You can see the work of the renaissance artists everywhere in Florence. The whole city is a museum. So, my interest in the secrets and methods of painting of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance became deeper there. I gained as much knowledge as I could about the philosophy and the techniques.

Teaching offers many things such as constant communication, but it is something different from the work in my studio which has to do with a personal research and endoscopy.

You are right, no matter how similar they look, the research is different. These artists showed the way to the future generations. I think the first years of abstraction in my work were influenced by Malevich and Rothko but later the use of the line became more similar to De Stijl. However, the abstraction is evolving now and it is a new language of communication.

The colour is meaningful, has power, emotion, ideology and philosophy and the same applies to the form.

When you try to paint or copy something can be easy or difficult, but to create a personal path requires a couple of things, not only to simply paint a surface. After all, everything is created in a painting by using three colours.

A small child perceives the world by touching, smelling and lastly by the logic.

So, if you do not approach and try to feel the different things, will not be understood. 

The same happens with contemporary art, you must approach it without any preconception, in order to understand it.

The most difficult to me is to organize a presentation of my work and choose the works that will be exhibited.

This decision is related to the experience, the intentions of the artist and it is judged differently each time.

There are many interesting Greek artists and many young ones are good too.

I am not used to giving advice, I would advise them to keep painting, studying all the great painters and reading about the history of art etc.

I do not have a specific favorite colour, because all the colours are useful and beautiful to me.