“His work, as well as his entire being, has all the characteristics of a mature, great painter, a painter who knows perfectly well how to choose his subjects, how to marry colors with admirable harmony and how to achieve a wonderful aesthetic result on the canvas. An irrefutable element and evidence are the important exhibitions held by the artist, who saw with absolute satisfaction the art-loving public responding with characteristic eagerness to his work. As a painter, Kostas Tapaktsoglou throughout his career was and will be a loyal lover and a sincere admirer of this eternal, timeless and always topical art. The way he chose to express himself is realistic, as throughout his life his painter remained unwaveringly loyal and devoted to the realistic depiction of the object, creating a large number of exceptional works.