Andy Warhol - Artist
New York 1983
“I'm afraid that if you look at a thing long enough, it loses all of its meaning.”
Courtney Love – Singer and actress
London 1987
“I want every girl in the world to pick up a guitar and start screaming."
Tom Hulce – Actor and director
London 1987
“I feel if you invent your own rules, you’re always better off than if you play by other people’s.”
Michael Clark – Dancer and choreographer
London 1987
“I still make work on my own body first, as I always have. I can only understand it from the inside.”
Bernie Katz – The Prince of Soho London 2008
“Nothing good ever comes from staying out later than 4am.”
Richard Thompson – Musician London 1984
“To stand up on a stage alone with an acoustic guitar requires bravery bordering on heroism. Bordering on insanity.”
Jackson Browne - Singer-songwriter
England 1986
“We may lose and we may win, but we will never be here again.”
David Blaine – Illusionist
London 2014
“I believe that fear of life brings a greater fear of death.”
Simon McBurney – Actor, writer and director London 1985 “Theatre is the art form of the present: it exists only in the present, and then it's gone.”
Peter Tosh – Musician
London 1983
“To have the truth in your possession you can be found guilty, sentenced to death.”
Patricia Highsmith - Author England 1986
“I'm going to enjoy what I've got as long as it lasts.” - The Talented Mr. Ripley
Annie Leibovitz – Photographer London 2016
“A very subtle difference can make the picture or not.”
Boris Johnson - Politician
London 2019
“I have as much chance of becoming Prime Minister as of being decapitated by a frisbee or of finding Elvis."
Mark Boxer - Editor and cartoonist
London 1983
“It's the height of bad manners to sleep with someone less than three times."
Auberon Waugh - Journalist and novelist
London 1996
“You should tell the truth as often as you can, but in such a way as people don't believe you or think that you're being funny.."
Catherine Yass - Artist
Wapping 1984
"When someone looks at a piece of work, they know something has gone into it, even if they can't lay their finger on what it is"
Sam Fuller – Film director and screenwriter
London 1983
“Life is in color, but black and white is more realistic."
James Mason - Actor
London 1983
“How do I wish to be remembered, if at all? I think perhaps just as a fairly desirable sort of character actor ."
Maggi Hambling- Artist
Suffolk 2014
“My philosophy of life is that I am deeply, deeply serious about my work and for the rest I like to have a few laughs."
Martin Sheen - Actor
London 1984
“While acting is what I do for a living, activism is what I do to stay alive "
Aung San Suu Kyi - Politician
Myanmar 2011
“I've always tried to explain democracy is not perfect. But it gives you a chance to shape your own destiny.”
Timothy Spall - Actor
London 2015
“Eccentricity is usually owned by middle-class and upper-class people. If you are working class and eccentric, then you're just mad.”
Gary Player - World Champion Golfer
Wentworth 2019
"The harder you work, the luckier you get."
Ron Dennis - Mclaren Group
England 2008
"I always thought, from day one, that winning races was just doing your job."
Wilko Johnson - Musician
Southend 2013
“We’re all going to die, but generally it’s something in the indefinite future. You don’t consider it."
Tyson
Mike Tyson, France 2013 - Tyson Fury, Spain 2017
"To be a great champion you must believe you are the best. If you’re not, pretend you are.”
― Muhammad Ali