To look with the eyes and see with the heart! Oftentimes you look at the brightly lit ranges of mountains and the diversity of the tints from light-blue to dark-purple amaze you. When you put all that beauty on canvas, people inquire if violet mountains ever existed.

Having painted a still life you wish to express the idea of freedom or the denial of violence which is the same. What needs to be done? No matter how natural apples, pears, a jar, or a flower are depicted, they remain apples, pears, a jar, a flower and nothing more. Therefore, you should disengage yourself and put imaginary color, line, shape, rhythm, correlation on the canvas which will inspire people with desirable ideal and will become the fruit of soul, intellect, and the symbol of self-expression and not nature’s surrogate.

To paint a landscape, will is difficult. It is particularly difficult to convey the landscapes of Armenia because the artist sees a large panorama with a distant horizon and uncovering spaces. You need to deal with it. This piece is good, but you taste the other one and it seems better. Separate parts of landscape should be elaborated in terms of both composition and color to see a whole landscape not separate parts of it. I am not very keen on painting empty landscapes, but by adding figures of people and animals one is able to vitalize it.

Resemblance is not the main part of a portrait. I never suggest an artificial and uncomfortable pose to the model. I start talking with him and gradually reach what interests and worry him in his life. At this time he automatically strikes a pose most comfortable for him. I painted some portraits in one-two sittings. It is necessary to maintain the freshness of image perception. You have to paint in a very simple and easy manner.

There is a deep content behind an exterior. Basically, it is easy to learn to paint exteriors. But it is more important to understand the core of a phenomenon, which is sometimes not as easy.

Pictures should not only be the source of arguments, but have to excite people and bring them closer to nature and sun. If a picture doesn’t excite, if it doesn’t stir up positive motives, then it lacks the most principal - the eternal breath of life.