I haven’t regretted anything. I was a fighter in life. I had to fight through my poverty. I made money from art. I remember when I had my first exhibition with painted dresses, Moralis laughed at me and said, "Are you going to become a designer for dresses?" But we had to live and the money I had could barely cut it. I tested dying the dresses in the house that belongs to Pepis father (Pepi Svoronou is the wife of Demosthenes Kokkinidis). The fortune I made, I made from the dresses, not from painting. I was also in the Art Group. We would go to the Doxiades and we pretended to be wise men. And when I said that if we want to survive, we have to make art to sell and to leave painting for other times, everyone though I was observed and they were shouting "come down".Source: tanea.gr
