Boyan Slat
Boyan Slat

I envisioned an extremely long network of floating barriers - they're like curtains floating in the ocean which are attached to the seabed. So what happens is that the current comes around and plastic gets pushed towards these barriers. And because it's in a V-shape, the plastic gets push towards the center.

Bruce Eric Kaplan
Bruce Eric Kaplan

We are all just little dolls of ourselves. Who occasionally pull back the curtains to reveal the real us.

Carmen Dell'Orefice
Carmen Dell'Orefice

I don't live for stuff and things, and if I had to live in a cardboard box, I would put curtains on it.

Clive Sinclair
Clive Sinclair

Many years ago, when I lived in the mini-Siberia they call East Anglia, I was awakened in the early hours by the sound of a pantechnicon being loaded. Peeping through the curtains, I observed the grocer doing a runner with all his chattels and his family.

Cornelia Parker
Cornelia Parker

My mother became mentally unwell with schizophrenia when I was in my teens... We couldn't watch television because she thought the people on TV were sending her messages. She thought there were hidden cameras everywhere, so we had to have the curtains drawn.

Daisy Lowe
Daisy Lowe

I live on the ground floor, so I have these lacy curtains during the day and then as soon as it gets dark, I'm like, 'Blackout blinds! Shutters!' I like being more private.

Damien Hirst
Damien Hirst

When I used to do abstract paintings at school, like everyone else, the tutor said these would make great curtains. I would always neglect the formal stuff that was going on by using colour, because colour kind of came naturally to me.

Danny DeVito
Danny DeVito

It's just an ice bucket with a bottle in it. The two flute glasses are little tray. I got to shut the curtains. I'm in my boxer shorts and shirt. I'm going to take a bath and go to bed. But I want to shut the blinds so it's really dark in the room.

David Talbot
David Talbot

It's like a cast of actors; you're all working together closely under pressure to produce something everyday. And when we put up an issue, it's like the curtains opening on a new play. I really like that daily sense of surprise.

Dee Rees
Dee Rees

My dad was a cop, you know, and I grew up three houses down from people who used Confederate flags as curtains.