"I, with my narrow mind, know one thing. I dedicated a whole life to painting because it seems it was destined for me to become like this; otherwise, something different could not have happened. Like breathing. You don't breathe because it means something, you don't torment your mind to understand what lies behind the breath, but simply, you breathe continuously because you want to live. That's how my painting is, uncle. I paint to live. So that my soul doesn't scatter...".

The life of Achmakis Varis, the painter of Romiosini, Theophilos Hatzimichail