In Saryan’s art - lyrical, bright, joyful - the unique philosophy of the artist is always deeply and accurately manifested, as if he knows what the roots and origins of life are, what is the meaning of human happiness. This philosophy is akin to folk wisdom, which permeates the poetry of Armenia - old and new. This wisdom is clearly expressed in the artist’s portraiture. Saryan loves to guess in a person a soul akin to his own. This is a world of images and poetic metaphors, a world of honest and pure poetry. In his portraits, Saryan tries to see the reflection of a person’s soul behind the external appearance, to comprehend in each the features of the feat that Saryan’s heroes, who gave so much to culture, carried through life.