“It always tormented me when I drew something and people would come and pose questions. For example you stay at an exhibition and for twenty times in a row you explain why a toaster is growing in a man’s head. It is far easier simply write on the picture that a toaster is a symbol of the domestic comfort and idiotism”.
Hihus (Pavel Suhih)
one of the most well-known comic book artists of Russia, an animator
“The creative work is woven of contradictions. It is an eternal dilemma between something familiar and something new, between a system and a chaos, logic and intuition. But there is no creativity outside these conflicts, outside this drama.”
Igor Lutz
General Director and creative executive director of the advertising holding “BBDO Moscow”
“… I think that in one’s life either there are principles or there are not. My paramount principle – to be in consent with myself...”
Ella Stuart
the Chairwoman of the Board of Directors, Chief Executive Director of BBDO Russia Group, one of the biggest communication groups in Russia
“A promoter – is not the one who brings people in restaurants and clubs, it is the one who leaves them there”.
Anatoliy Lyapidevskiy
Restaurateur and club promoter
«…it is important to capture, guess and feel tendencies’ origin and work with these knowledge...”
Anna Balandina
Fashion analyst, image consultant
“…collects photos and photo albums, likes austere lounge suits and considers a switched off mobile phone indispensable to have a good rest…”
Sophia Trotsenko
Russian art-producer, founder and manager of the Contemporary Arts project VINZAVOD, she is a dean of the producer department at the MKhAT Art School
