"In nature, it is not the strongest that survives, but the one who knows how to be friends with her. This is how an artist, a pilot, and a creator of aircraft models should be. The sky is like a canvas, an airplane writes a trajectory on it, like an artist - a line with his brush ... The girl in the paintings is me, if I were a woman in another life. Or my great-grandmother when she was young. I am not a museum artist, I am not interested in society. I am interested in the transcendent, timeless beauty that shines through in a beautiful woman, in a landscape, in flowers."