Facts about Cecil Beaton

Occup.	Photographer
From	England
Born	January 14, 1904
Died	January 18, 1980
Aged	76 years

Summary

Cecil Beaton was a famous Photographer from England, who lived between January 14, 1904 and January 18, 1980. He/she became 76 years old.

Zodiac:

He/she is born under the zodiac capricorn, who is known for Determination, Dominance, Perservering, Practical, Willful. Our collection contains 12 quotes who is written / told by Cecil.

12 Famous quotes by Cecil Beaton

"What is elegance? Soap and water!"

Cecil Beaton

"All I want is the best of everything and there's very little of that left"

Cecil Beaton

"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

"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

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

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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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"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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"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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"San Francisco is perhaps the most European of all American cities"

Cecil Beaton

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

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

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