I have set up several businesses as social businesses, and I am a great believer that the power of business should be used for good.
Lily ColeThe narrative of so many fairy tales are timeless in so many different cultures, and they have been since the dawn of man. They represent escapism, but they all feature themes that have such poignancy in a modern world.
Lily ColeIt doesn't make me very happy to be on my computer all the time. I've never been drawn to that world.
Lily ColeThe need to protect the environment has emerged as an undeniably important priority for me.
Lily ColeI paint - I tend more to abstraction - but not as much as I would like to because of time. I would love to do sculpture - I've toyed with the idea of fitting in a sculpture course.
Lily ColeI really love any and all manifestations of art, really respect any kind of artistic impulse, whether it's paintings and sculptures or really good filmmaking or music. I really see the relationships between these different mediums as very fluid. I think you see that nowadays, in this postmodern context, there's much more use of different mediums in contemporary art. For me, if you're a creative person, you can choose to make a painting, you can choose to make a film.
Lily Cole