Tatiana Yakusheva

Artist’s Statement

Just some phrases to meditate on...

I do not literally paint that table, but the emotion it produces upon me.
Henri Matiss

Art is made to disturb. Science reassures. There is only one valuable thing in art: the thing you cannot explain.
Georges Braque

Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.
Pablo Picasso

Welcome, dear friends, and thank you for your curiosity and attempt to capture my art. For me Art is Life and Life is Art. Both processes are pretty complicated, but also adventurous, creative, challenging, and infinite. As we look for our paths in life so do I also look for approaches and techniques in the art process. Every time I draw or paint, I try to improvise… with new mediums and styles. Art, for me, turns into a meditation process. It is something sacred, magical, and ephemeral. The state of creation, or the process of creation, is life in different dimension. Artwork turns into separate substance that has energy, light and lives its own life. The goal for me is not to create painting with the right succession of strokes, proportions and perspective. All the Beauty is in Imperfection. Drawing or painting becomes a separate substance that has energy and light, and lives its own life.
Art has no borders and it needs to be free. You should put passion, energy and love into what you do to create something of artistic value, emotional and spiritual, something that would disturb people's minds and touch the strings of their souls. My works are usually the result of generated experience, passion, feelings, concerns, and questions. Emotions: love, friendship, happiness, grief, disappointment, failure, and success make the works impressionistic, lively, and dynamic. I don't create on someone's order or make the copies. You cannot step into the same river twice and you can never feel or think the way you did a moment ago. To copy for me means to lie or fake it. Every new work should be original, complete and genuine. You cannot have a formula for inspiration or love. Either it is there or it is not.

... some more favourite quotes ...

I am not frightened. I am not frightened of anything. The more I suffer, the more I love. Danger will only increase my love. It will sharpen it, it will give it spice. I will be the only angel you need. You will leave life even more beautiful than you entered it. Heaven will take you back and look at you and say: Only one thing can make a soul complete, and that thing is love.
-The Reader-

For what it's worth: it's never too late or, in my case, too early to be whoever you want to be. Ther's no time limit, stop whenever you want. You can change or stay the same, there are no rules to this thing. We can make the best or the worst of it. And I hope you see things that startle you. I hope you feel things you never felt before. I hope you meet people with a different point of view. I hope you live the life you are proud of. If you find that you are not, I hope you have the strength to start all over again.
-Curious story of Benjamin Button-

While I will admit a certain cynicism, the fact is that I am a naysayer and hatchet-man in the fight against violence. I pride myself in taking a punch and I'll gladly take another because I choose to live my life in the company of Gandhi and King. My concers are global. I reject absolutely: revenge, aggression and retaliation. The foundation of such a method ... is love. I love you, ..
-Twin Peaks-

- You stand on the beach and taste the salty smell of the wind that comes from the ocean, and inside you feel the warmth of never ending freedom, and on your lips the bitter, tear-soaked kiss of your lover.
- I have never been to the ocean.
- That can’t be true! You have never ever been to the ocean?
- Never - ever!
- Both of us are knocking on heavens door, drinking tequila, we are biting-the-dust experts - and you have never - ever been to the ocean!
- Never - ever!
- Don't you know how it is when you arrive in heaven? In heaven it's all they talk about - the ocean - and how wonderful it is. They talk about the sunsets they have seen. They talk about how the sun turned blood-red before it set. And they talk about how they felt when the sun was loosing its power, - and the cold that was coming from the ocean, while the rest of the fire was still glowing. And you - You can't talk about it with them, since you have never been there! You will be a fucking outsider up there!
-Knocking at the Heaven's Door-

What good would wings be if you couldn't feel the wind on your face?
-City of Angels-

All damaged people are dangerous. Survival makes them so. "Why?" Because they have no pity. They know what others can survive, as they did.
-Damage-