Cecil Beaton Quotes

• What is elegance? Soap and water!

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• San Francisco is perhaps the most European of all American cities.

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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.

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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.

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• Mrs Woolf’s complaint should be addressed to her creator, who made her, rather than me.

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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.

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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.

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• I can’t afford a whole new set of enemies.

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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.

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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.

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• All I want is the best of everything and there’s very little of that left.

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Cecil Beaton (11)

Birth:	14th January, 1904
Death:	18th January, 1980
Nationality:	British
Profession:	Costume Designer, Interior Designer, Painter, Photographer, Writer

About

Sir Cecil Walter Hardy Beaton  was born in Hampstead,  London. She  was an English fashion, portrait and war photographer, writer, painter, interior designer and an Academy Award–winning stage and costume designer for films and the theatre. He was named to the International Best Dressed List Hall of Fame in 1970. Beaton's first camera was a Kodak 3A folding camera. He is best known for his fashion photographs and society portraits. He worked as a staff photographer for Vanity Fair and Vogue in addition to photographing celebrities in Hollywood. He also designed the period costumes for the 1970 film On a Clear Day You Can See Forever. He is the winner of four Tony Awards. He also designed the academic dress of the University of East Anglia.

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