Under Thatcher, who ruled us with an iron rod, great art was made. Amazing designers and musicians. Acid house was born. Very colourful and progressive.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Margaret Thatcher was very good for the arts in so far as it gave people a real focus for something to be against.
The house has to serve comfort. The work of art is revolutionary; the house is conservative.
Mrs. Thatcher was a powerful figure at the time I was a student in London. And I admire her versatility and strength.
I remember my mother taking me to see the Picasso show in the 1940s, and I was impressed by the life and vibrancy of it all. It was a bit too avant-garde for most Londoners at the time, but since then, the city has become a centre for modern culture.
I certainly wasn't a fan of Thatcher's politics. People liked to label us as children of Thatcher. What nonsense. The real children of Thatcher came in the 1990s, and had no interest in politics. The Oasis, Britpop scene.
In London - and forget those extra public pressures on politicians - the lovely old Sloane world of manor houses simply hasn't cut it since Big Bang in 1986, the point at which Mrs. Thatcher really started to achieve her ambition to make this country more like America - its ambition, economy, it's very tangible measures of success.
I think the artistic side of architecture was natural to me. My mother was an artist and a poet.
The English country house is certainly an icon of British culture.
What house, bloated with luxury, ever became prosperous without a woman's excellence?
Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household.
No opposing quotes found.