An interview by
, curator and curator
Child impressions are the strongest and foundational for any person , that ' s why the fact that my parents were artists decided my future life perspective . It had a significant impact on me and shaped a certain mindset . Later on 12 years of studies at the School of Art first and then at the University of Art laid the significant groundwork for the technical competence as well as for the worldview shaping and aesthetical preferences . We were taught in classical way on the basis of antiquity and renaissance ideals . It formed certain aesthetical principles . They are raised to the rank of philosophy , or even more — to the rank of cult . It is well-known that any false note is horrible to the ear of a musician , and the painters feel the same , but in relation to the colour or shape . But another factor was more influential . The stage of trainings can be compared to bullet acceleration in the gun barrel . It looks as if a person is flying in the intended direction through
Sergey Sobolev
the life , and if they don ' t meet any invincible obstacles , they don ' t change this direction for the whole life . It is very important . To deal with any matter it is necessary to focus on it . But it is more important to guess the right direction of this acceleration in the beginning of the life , because if you make a mistake , you may live not your life by inertia . I ' m so unfocused by nature and I ' m interested in widely different things . And if I didn ' t have fundamental art education I could be lost in the variety of interests without taking successive steps in definite direction . And I still expand the horizons steadily , and sometimes it
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