Cecil Beaton Quotes

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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,…
• 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.
• What is elegance? Soap and water!
• 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…
• 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…
• 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…
• Perhaps the world's second worst crime is boredom. The first is being a bore.
• Love is someone you can be silly with
• 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 ...
• All I want is the best of everything and there's very little of that left.
• 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…
• San Francisco is perhaps the most European of all American cities
• Intelligent and alert, wistful but enthusiastic, frank yet tactful, assured without conceit and tender without sentimentality.
• I can't afford a whole new set of enemies.
• The truly fashionable are beyond fashion.
• Mrs Woolf's complaint should be addressed to her creator, who made her, rather than me.

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