I can only try to evoke the impression I got on first entering the hall as a visitor the strong feeling of life being intensely and purposefully lived, of animated talk, laughter, brilliant colour everywhere, youth. - Francis Partridge
'Bloomsbury paints in circles, lives in squares and loves in triangles.' - Dorothy Parker
"The house seems full of young people in very high spirits, laughing a great deal at their own jokes ... lying about in the garden which is simply a dithering blaze of flowers and butterflies and apples." - Vanessa Bell
'It will be an odd life, but…it ought to be a good one for painting,' - Vanessa Bell