Personal Quotations

If you want to know something about me, don’t ask me anything. Look at my pictures, and you’ll learn more about Petr Yemets than I can tell you in words.

Where does the imagination come from?

I stand for a long time in front of a white background or the work started and think. And falling asleep, I give myself a certain task. When I wake up in the morning, there is an answer to all the questions. The paints haven’t yet laid on the canvas, and I already clearly see the completed picture.

About the inspiration

When I paint I don’t get tired both physically and emotionally. But if I thought out and didn’t finish then, yes, I spend a month in a bed. It really exhausts me.

About the modern art

A bad painter depicts a woman’s breast on her knee, and a knee instead of a forehead. This, says he, is the avant-garde art and writes under the picture “Ukrainian Woman”. But do they look like that, our women? Why should they be maimed?

About the main problem of Ukraine

We have one disease, and this is not Chernobyl. Our illness is greedy officials at the state trough. When we get rid of this disease, the society will immediately become healthy. In the meantime, we can’t count on anything.

About the temples

Each owner decides in his own way, where to put a chair in the house, where should be the table, where the place for the bed is. Similarly, in our country, everyone decided whether churches are needed or not. Here came those ones; they decided: we don’t need them. Here came these ones; they decided: they are necessary. But believe me, it’s endless. Others will come, and others will destroy...

About his own position

I remained faithful to the chosen path when I was oppressed, and now I’m not going to change my convictions. As for creativity, life changes, and I change as an artist. This is a normal, natural process.