Great artists

"You only need power when you want to do something harmful, otherwise love is enough to do everything" - Chaplin. From the 25 influential creators project

"I was born and was first a humble model of myself, to be reborn into a more perfect creation…" - Michelangelo. From the 25 influential creators project

"I'd rather entertain people and hope they learned something, than teach people and hope they enjoyed it" - Disney. From the 25 influential creators project

"Remember one thing: there are no lines, there are only volumes. And when you draw, never think about the lines, and focus only on the area. After all, the area is what controls the contour" - Roden. From the 25 influential creators project

"Nothing says so much about its creator as the work itself" - Kurosawa. From the 25 influential creators project

"Painting requires a little mystery, a little uncertainty, a little fantasy. When you create a very clear meaning, people get bored" - Degas. From the 25 influential creators project

"Money is everywhere, but so is poetry. What we lack is poets" - Fellini. From the 25 influential creators project

"Art is not what we see but only what - we have in ourselves" - Archipenko. From the 25 influential creators project

"If there are eight people left in the screening of my film in the auditorium, I work for them" - Tarkovsky. From the 25 influential creators project

"Something happens in the space you are in. Time changes. Time, I think, slows down. The mystical truth of art is time" - Kapoor. From the 25 influential creators project

"In my imagination I do not hear pieces of music in sequence, I hear it all at once. And it is a pleasure!" Mozart. From the 25 influential creators project

"I had to work hard. Anyone who works equally hard will achieve the same success" - Bach. From the 25 influential creators project