I always wanted to be a painter. But inside me I always had the artist's illness. " This phrase of a shocking self-awareness sums up the case of Alexis Akrithakis. Romantic, unconventional, with an inherent mood for adventure and a moving childhood, stubborn and dreamy, impulsive and persistent seeker of experience, he believed that painting is not a knowledge, but an observation of life that arises in a completely free way of living. Source: ethnos.gr