“On the other hand, the seventies were drab. That is, I am utterly fascinated by the fifties and sixties.” HandsFascinatedSixtySeventies Author:Quentin S. Crisp
“We're all more or less interested in the 'swinging sixties', of course, but that's not what I mean. I'm interested in the particular naive glamour that clings to the post-war and pre-Hendrix era.” MeanWarCoursesParticularErasPostsSixtyNaiveGlamourHendrixPost War Author:Quentin S. Crisp
“I don't know if Britain ever really achieved that much glamour. We had post-war austerity rather than post-war prosperity, and our cultural products of the time include some pretty dour kitchen-sink dramas of the A Kind of Loving variety. (This kind of film seems disillusioned with the sixties before they've even really begun.)” IfsKnowsKindWarSeemsFilmProductsDramaProsperityVarietyPostsKitchenBritainSixtyGlamourDisillusionedAusterityPost WarKitchen Sinks Author:Quentin S. Crisp
“The cultural products of America from this period [ fifties and sixties] are like a vision of paradise or something. I find it utterly intoxicating.” AmericaVisionProductsPeriodsParadiseSixty Author:Quentin S. Crisp
“I feel like the seventies was a decade where things ran out, and where other things set in. There was just a lurking graininess and seediness about the decade, a slight grogginess of the hangover from the sixties.” FeelsDecadesRanSixtySeventiesHangoverLurking Author:Quentin S. Crisp
“[My muse] likes to inhabit tea leaves, sunlight filtered through bamboo, melancholy clouds over the Devon coastline, a weedy railroad crossing in the Southern States, bubblegum pop from the sixties, torch songs from the forties, undersea caves where B-movie octopi grapple with men in loincloths, sacred groves of pink anime dryads, Victorian fairy paintings executed by gentlemen in lunatic asylums and so on.” MenStatesSongPaintingSacredCloudsPopsLikesTeaGentlemanFairyFortyMelancholySouthernSunlightSixtyMuseCavesCrossingsLunaticTorchesRailroadsAsylumsVictorianGroveAnimeBambooCoastlineDevonLunatic AsylumsTea LeavesUndersea Author:Quentin S. Crisp
