"I was never willing to take part in something where it is predetermined what is high and what is not. On the other hand, I never wanted to be a pioneer ¬ the pioneers for me were exhausted in the first two decades of the century. I created constructions and showed them at a exhibition I did in 1967 at the Zouboulakis gallery, looking for ways to declare my resistance to dictatorship, but from then on I remained a traditional painter. And that does not bother me. I want to change slowly and have control over what I do. Art after all is not an experiment but the result of it. ". Source: tovima.gr