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It is very important to consider every thing that surrounds as not important.
Maybe with two small exceptions: life and death.

The thing that matters most when you are creating is to be yourself. All the ideas, the sources of inspiration and the things that influence you are like metal objects drawn by a magnet.

I only saw in Jesus Christ the eminently religious character, the Man who set up the Christianity. And Ernesto “Che” Guevara is for me the political Christ, a red Christ.

For me it is not important that my characters evolve in a setting that is the closest to reality. It doesn’t really matter where they evolved or where they passed away. The important thing is how they died. That is why I always present them surrounded by a neutral setting such as the dark.

I never considered my works as paintings in the true meaning of the word.
I looked at my paintings as to drawings, some drawings originating inside my being.

My works are for me only some exorcised demons.

There is no greater solitude than the creator’s. Perhaps only that of the Supreme Creator.

Life means only violence, suffering and death.
That is why my works are only about violence, suffering and death.

We mean nothing for anybody else, not even for ourselves.

The most significant lyrics from the Romanian literature are those from Tudor Arghezi,
and I quote: “ I took from the abode the dust of the dead/ And I made from it a stone God”.

The things that influenced me most were Sam Peckinpah’s movies, especially “ Bring me the head of Alfredo Garcia” and the music of “The Doors”, especially the lyrics of Jim Morrison.

Ideas are not important for me; it is rather the necessary mood for putting them into practice.