To the artists of Ukraine
Please accept my sincere greetings on the occasion of your occupational holiday the Artist´s Day.
Your activity has always been a vitally important component of civilization that honoured a human being as the biggest value of social life, enriched its intelligence, formed and strengthened its outlook, developed creativity and formed universal and national humanistic values.
Creating a unique artistic world, owing to the talent, mastery, peculiar perception of life accompanied with mental wisdom, knowledge, experience, powerful aesthetic-emotional influence, artists can succeed in the most complicated humanistic missions.
For the period of independence, artistic life in Ukraine has become more active and diverse. Ukrainian artists demonstrate individuality, rich genre diversity, deep feeling of national identity, having made themselves known far beyond the Motherland.
On the occasion of this holiday, I wish all the best to the creators of beauty, new artistic achievements for the sake of prosperity and glory of Ukrainian art.
Volodymyr LYTVYN