Olga Kanaeva (Kotelkina)

Beauty stands for innocence and harmony comprising some chilli at the same time.

It’s most spacious within white walls and under high ceilings.

Criticizing is a deconstructive character trait. It does not invest into unity.

People tend to do the things they’ve seen some other day. They do alter the things and fashion them to the actual situation. That is the way new things arrive. Things do not emerge just out of blue.

My family is the reason for me to live, it’s my way of self actualizing, that is the stem for everything. I realized this fact only after I got my own family. Everything was so dull and bald before.

“Everything is eligible to exist” — that is the phrase which can characterize the contemporary art.

I’ve got a new hobby: to collect pink kids clothes, especially crinoline skirts for my baby. Well, in all honest I just can’t wait till my daughter grows up a little and I will be able to play well with Barbie (laughing).

It’s quite a complicated thing to bring up a child in Russia, but it is possible. The pleasant fact is that the “technologies have at last arrived”.

We are constantly wearing some masks, each day laying some roles. It’s like in a shop we are acting the scene called “a seller and a buyer”. A man is a stereotyped being, he has been already taught to do everything he needs for life: to cross the street, to socialize, to earn money. Moreover playing “ benevolent citizens” is another trendy role nowadays.

Russia makes such a multitude that people here just can’t get the feeling of taste all at once. Once you come back home from Europe you get the idea that we are having much ahead to strive for. While you are staying here you seem to get used to all this and you are inclined to think that it’s not even that bad here.

I can remember my badly hurting the forehead while I was trying my best to jump off the swings at full speed. So I’ve got this stamp since then for the rest of my life.

The most important issues I took after my parents are my mother’s live wisdom and my father’s creative flavour. Both things help me a great deal.

Everything has its own reserve and its limits. I mean you can’t just hope for inspiration and miracle to come lying on the sofa. You need to start, let’s say, with the zoo (laughing).