‘To write it took three months; to conceive it three minutes; to collect the data in it, all my life.’
F Scott Fitzgerald is so inextricably bound to his works it is hard to separate him from his fictional characters and their life and times.
‘Who would say that pleasure is not useful?’
Charles & Ray Eames designed some of the most influential and innovative pieces of 20th century furniture but, through their toys, photography, paintings and films, they defined an open, organic, emotionally expressive approach to design and lifestyle.
“I never liked heroin that much. It’s a very overrated drug.”
Corinne Day was famed for being the often-controversial photographer who launched Kate Moss’s career – and the backlash against the sensationally named ‘heroin-chic’ look and ‘grunge’ trend that followed.
“Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.”
Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill: famed war leader, orator, national hero, the first person to be made an honorary citizen of the United States, and so revered that, when he finally retired from politics, the Queen considered creating him Duke of London.
‘Think outside the box, collapse the box, and take a fucking sharp knife to it.’
The British Graffiti artist Banksy has been plying his trade for nearly twenty years and, during that time, has courted controversy with his contempt for the labelling of graffiti as ‘vandalism’. You either love or you hate it. We love it.
