"I have the worst ear for criticism, even……" — Cecil Beaton
"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."
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16 Quotes by 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,…
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Never in the history of fashion has so little material been raised so high to reveal so much that needs…
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What is elegance? Soap and water!
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Americans have an abiding belief in their ability to control reality by purely material means... airline insurance replaces the fear…
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More varied than any landscape was the landscape in the sky, with islands of gold and silver, peninsulas of apricot…
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On close inspection, this device turned out to be a funereal juke box - the result of mixing Lloyd's of…
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Perhaps the world's second worst crime is boredom. The first is being a bore.
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Love is someone you can be silly with
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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…
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All I want is the best of everything and there's very little of that left.
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San Francisco is perhaps the most European of all American cities
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Intelligent and alert, wistful but enthusiastic, frank yet tactful, assured without conceit and tender without sentimentality.
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