"What is elegance? Soap and water!" — Cecil Beaton
"What is elegance? Soap and water!"
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Cecil Beaton
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16 Quotes by Cecil Beaton
Cecil Beaton has 16 quotes on this site.
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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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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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I have the worst ear for criticism, even when I have created a stage set I like, I always hear…
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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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More Elegance Quotes
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I know that Brighton is famously a mixture of the seedy and the elegant, but in the summer of 2001…
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Some people think luxury is the opposite of poverty. It is not. It is the opposite of vulgarity.
— Coco Chanel
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Elegance is not the prerogative of those who have just escaped from adolescence, but of those who have already taken…
— Coco Chanel
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Elegance does not consist in putting on a new dress.
— Coco Chanel
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Luxury must be comfortable, otherwise it is not luxury.
— Coco Chanel
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Elegance is refusal.
— Coco Chanel
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Elegance is elimination.
— Cristobal Balenciaga
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Elegance is not standing out, but being remembered.
— Giorgio Armani
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Fashion anticipates, and elegance is a state of mind ... a mirror of the time in which we live, a…
— Oleg Cassini
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Simplicity, carried to an an extreme, becomes elegance.
— Jon Franklin
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Elegance is not a dispensable luxury but a factor that decides between success and failure.
— Edsger Dijkstra
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Strength may wield the ponderous spade, May turn the clod, and wheel the compost home; But elegance, chief grace the…
— William Cowper
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