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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.

~Cecil Beaton

Topics: Against Anything Assert Be Different Commonplace Creatures Daring Different Imaginative Impractical Integrity Ordinary Purpose Slaves Vision Will

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Perhaps the world's second-worst crime is boredom; the first is being a bore.

~Cecil Beaton

Topics: Being Bore Boredom Crime First Perhaps World

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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.

~Cecil Beaton

Topics: Against Any Background Gold Islands Landscape Many More Rose Shades Silver Sky Than Turquoise Varied

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What is elegance? Soap and water!

~Cecil Beaton

Topics: Elegance Soap Water

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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.

~Cecil Beaton

Topics: Box Chewing Chewing Gum Close Device Gum Inspection London Mixing Out Principle Result Turned

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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.

~Cecil Beaton

Topics: Badly Been Covered Fashion High History Little Material Much Needs Never Raised Reveal The History Of

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

~Cecil Beaton

Topics: Complaint Creator Her Made Me Rather Should Than Who Woolf Mrs

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I can't afford a whole new set of enemies.

~Cecil Beaton

Topics: Afford Enemies New Set Whole

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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.

~Cecil Beaton

Topics: Abide Ability Airline American Belief Cash Comforting Control Death Fear Insurance Material Means Prospect Purely Reality

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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.

~Cecil Beaton

Topics: Always Back Blue Circle Created Criticism Dress Ear Even Hear Like Says Set She Stage Who Woman Worst

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Photographer

Born: January 14th, 1904

Died: January 18th, 1980

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