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Famous Quotes By Cecil Beaton

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Love is someone you can be silly with — Cecil Beaton

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I want to make photographs of very elegant women taking the lipstick off their teeth. — Cecil Beaton

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Perhaps the world's second-worst crime is boredom; the first is being a bore. — Cecil Beaton

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A technical failure that shows some attempt at aesthetic expression is of infinitely more value than uninspired success. — Cecil Beaton

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All I want is the best of everything and there's very little of that left. — Cecil Beaton

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After twenty annual visits, I am still surprised each time I return to see this giant asparagus bed of alabaster and rose and green skyscrapers. — Cecil Beaton

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Americans have an abiding belief in their ability to control reality by purely material means ... airline insurance replaces the fear of death with the comforting prospect of cash. — Cecil Beaton

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What is elegance? Soap and water! — Cecil Beaton

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Mrs Woolf's complaint should be addressed to her creator, who made her, rather than me. — Cecil Beaton

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Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary. — Cecil Beaton

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[He stared into the camera] like some sort of an animal gazing from across the back of its sty. (On Winston Churchill) — Cecil Beaton

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You can't teach people photography, they've got to learn how to do it the best way possible for them. They can learn from looking at pictures taken by well-known people, but they don't really get intimate with the medium until they've made a few bad shots! — Cecil Beaton

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San Francisco is perhaps the most European of all American cities. — Cecil Beaton

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I can't afford a whole new set of enemies. — Cecil Beaton

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More varied than any landscape was the landscape in the sky, with islands of gold and silver, peninsulas of apricot and rose against a background of many shades of turquoise and azure. — Cecil Beaton

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I have the worst ear for criticism; even when I have created a stage set I like, I always hear the woman in the back of the dress circle who says she doesn't like blue. — Cecil Beaton

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Intelligent and alert, wistful but enthusiastic, frank yet tactful, assured without conceit and tender without sentimentality. — Cecil Beaton

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On close inspection, this device turned out to be a funereal juke box - the result of mixing Lloyd's of London with the principle of the chewing gum dispenser. — Cecil Beaton

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Never in the history of fashion has so little material been raised so high to reveal so much that needs to be covered so badly. — Cecil Beaton

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Miss Marilyn Monroe calls to mind the bouquet of a fireworks display, eliciting from her awed spectators an open-mouthed chorus of ohs and ahs ... — Cecil Beaton

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The truly fashionable are beyond fashion. — Cecil Beaton