A technical failure that shows some attempt at aesthetic expression is of infinitely more value than uninspired success. — Cecil Beaton Copy Share Image
“Be daring, be different, be impractical; be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers.” — Cecil Beaton Copy Share Image
[He stared into the camera] like some sort of an animal gazing from across the back of its sty. (On Winston Churchill) — Cecil Beaton Copy Share Image
More varied than any landscape was the landscape in the sky, with islands of gold and silver, peninsulas of apricot and rose against a… — Cecil Beaton Copy Share Image
I have the worst ear for criticism, even when I have created a stage set I like, I always hear the woman in the… — Cecil Beaton Copy Share Image
Americans have an abiding belief in their ability to control reality by purely material means... airline insurance replaces the fear of death with the… — Cecil Beaton Copy Share Image
Never in the history of fashion has so little material been raised so high to reveal so much that needs to be covered so… — Cecil Beaton Copy Share Image
On close inspection, this device turned out to be a funereal juke box - the result of mixing Lloyd's of London with the principle… — Cecil Beaton Copy Share Image
All I want is the best of everything and there's very little of that left. — Cecil Beaton Copy Share Image
Intelligent and alert, wistful but enthusiastic, frank yet tactful, assured without conceit and tender without sentimentality. — Cecil Beaton Copy Share Image
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