I stopped my studies at the technical university in 1980, when I have decided to devote myself to art. My teacher Vitaly Stasevich, on the speciality of Fine Arts at the pedagogical university (where I studied in 1981-1986), helped me to understand that this devotion could be a meaning of my life. The life of my teacher and friend Victor Reikhet, professor of St. Petersburg Academy of Arts (where I studied in 1987-1993), was a complete realization of such meaning. Since 1995 I am a member of Professional Creative Artist's Union of IFA (UNESCO). Now I am a painter in Sweden, president of the non-profit cultural organization International Society of Artists. PHILOSOPHY AND CONCEPT Art is unable to be a server or material. It is also not peculiar to man to be a means. Man is always the purpose. An artist's life is a struggle without stone in heart. It is a struggle for the rights of art in people's consciousness.