Sam John Hopkins (Lightnin’ Hopkins) was American country blues singer, songwriter, guitarist and occasional pianist, from Houston, Texas. Rolling Stone magazine included Hopkins at number 71 on their list of the 100 greatest guitarists of all time. He was the embodiment of the jazz-and-poetry spirit, representing its ancient form in the single creator whose words and music are one act.
“I had the one thing you need to be a blues singer, I was born with the blues”.
Lightnin’ Hopkins
Eartha Mae Kitt was an American singer, actress, dancer and cabaret star. She was best known for her highly distinctive singing style and her 1953 hit recordings of C'est Si Bon and the enduring Christmas novelty Santa Baby. She took over the role of Catwoman for the third and final season of the 1960's Batman television series.
“I never take anything for granted. I may slip any minute”.
Eartha Kitt
Yoko Ono is a Japanese artist and peace activist, known for her work in avant-garde art, music and filmmaking, and for her marriage to John Lennon. Ono was a sometime member of FLUXUS, a loose association of Dada-inspired artists.
“I saw that nothing was permanent. You don’t want to possess anything that is dear to you because you might lose it”.
Yoko Ono
Georgia Totto O'Keeffe was an American artist. She made large format paintings of enlarged blossoms, presenting them close up as if seen through a magnifying lens. O'Keeffe has been recognized as the Mother of American Modernism.
“I found I could say things with colour and shapes that I could not say any other way - things I had no words for”.
Georgia O'Keeffe
Dame Zaha Mohammad Hadid is an Iraqi-British architect. Her buildings are distinctively futuristic, characterized by the powerful, curving forms of her elongated structures with multiple perspective points and fragmented geometry to evoke the chaos of modern life.
“I am sure that as a women I can do a very good skyscraper”.
Zaha Hadid
James Byron Dean was an American actor. He is a cultural icon of teenage disillusionment, as expressed in the title of his most celebrated film, Rebel Without a Cause (1955). Dean’s enduring fame and popularity rest on his performances in only three films with a leading roles. His premature death in a car crash cemented his legendary status.
“Only the gentle are ever really strong”.
James Dean
Bob Dylan (Robert Allen Zimmerman) is an American musician, singer, songwriter, artist and writer. He has been an influential figure in popular music and culture for more than five decades. Much of his work dates from the 1960’s, when he was an informal chronicler and a seemingly reluctant figurehead of social unrest. Dylan’s six minute single “Like a a Rolling Stone” radically altered the parameters of popular music in 1965.
“I was born very far from where I am meant to be, so I am on my way Home ”.
Bob Dylan
Salvatore Ferragamo was an Italian shoe designer. He worked with many Hollywood stars in the 1920’s. His scientific and creative approach to shoes spawned many innovations such as wedge heel and cage heel. Film stars and celebrities continue to patronize his company, which has evolved into a luxury goods empire spanning the world.
“Fakes are so easy that they grow and grow - and the margins are astronomical”.
Salvatore Ferragamo
Steve McCurry is an American photojournalist, best known for his photograph, “Afghan Girl”, that originally appeared in National Geographic magazine.His career was launched when he crossed the Pakistan border into rebel-controlled areas of Aghanistan just before the Soviet Invasion. When he emerged, he had rolls of film sewn into his clothes. Those images were published around the world.
“My life is shaped by the urgent need to wander and observe, and my camera is my passport”.
Steve McCurry