"Far too much modern art is intellectually vague, emotionally sterile, abstract and conceptual.. and successful only in failing to deal with the fears, joys, and anguish of our lives.  In contrast, Viktor Safonkin's art confronts the human condition head on with powerful mythic images all sumptuously rendered in an unapologetic classical style that reaches back into an ancient past to rub shoulders with the likes of Brueghel and Bosch."

Terry Gilliam