“More than anything, the process of painting is associated for me with music.  Sometimes, I hear music in my head when I paint, sometimes it sounds so real I think I’m going mad, then I turn on my stereo and play Beethoven, Mozart, Verdi, Tchaikovsky, Prokofiev….colors then lay down on canvas over each other again and again in unimaginable harmony which only music can produce.” —Igor Khazanov