FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT

“Culture is what this country needs. Culture brings something from within outwards. Education takes something and tries to stick it on from the outside. Education tries to tell you, culture shows you,” Frank Lloyd Wright. 

(Frank Lloyd Wright was an American architect, interior designer, writer and educator, who designed more than 1,000 structures, 532 of which were completed; 1867-1959.)

KATHARINE HEPBURN

"Well, it's not enough to be talented. There's a lot of talent out there, but it's owned by lazy, stupid, or essentially boring people. You can't just be talented: You have to be terribly smart and energetic and ruthless. You also have to become necessary to people, by working hard and well and bringing more than your bones and your skin to the project. Don't just show up. Transform the work, yourself, and everybody around you. Be needed. Be interesting. Be something no one else can be--and consistently,” Katharine Hepburn. 

(Katharine Houghton Hepburn was an American actress. Known for her fierce independence and spirited personality, Hepburn was a leading lady in Hollywood for more than 60 years; 1907-2003).

JOHN FOWLES

"Men love war because it allows them to look serious. Because they imagine it is the one thing that stops women laughing at them. In it they can reduce women to the status of objects. That is the great distinction between the sexes. Men see objects, women see relationship between objects. Whether the objects love each other, need each other, match each other. It is an extra dimension of feeling we men are without and one that makes war abhorrent to all real women - and absurd. I will tell you what war is. War is a psychosis caused by an inability to see relationships. Our relationship with our fellow-men. Our relationship with our economic and historical situation. And above all our relationship to nothingness. To death," John Fowles, 'The Magus'.

(John Robert Fowles was an English novelist of international stature, critically positioned between modernism and postmodernism. His work reflects the influence of Jean-Paul Sartre and Albert Camus, among others; 1926-2005).

The Royal Opera House: What Do You See?

NIKITA GILL

"I am sorry someone loved you badly, and that they made you feel like you take up more space than you deserve... I am sorry they abandoned you when you needed them most and it has made you believe that love is an awful thing that hurts," Nikita Gill.

(Nikita Gill is a poet who is best known for her compilation of poetry entitled Your Soul is a River; June 20, 1987-Present).

DALLAS CLAYTON

"I'm a fan of the way you continue, I'm a fan of the way you collapse, I'm a fan on the way you get carried way by the waves of a word like, 'Perhaps', " Dallas Clayton.

(Dallas Clayton is an American author and illustrator best known for his children’s works in the Awesome Book series).