Cecil Beaton
Cecil Beaton
Sir Cecil Walter Hardy Beaton CBEwas an English fashion, portrait and war photographer, diarist, 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...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionPhotographer
Date of Birth14 January 1904
Cecil Beaton quotes about
fashion style fashionable
The truly fashionable are beyond fashion.
photography taken people
You can't teach people photography, they've got to learn how to do it the best way possible for them. They can learn from looking at pictures taken by well-known people, but they don't really get intimate with the medium until they've made a few bad shots!
love family happiness
Love is someone you can be silly with
enemy i-can whole
I can't afford a whole new set of enemies.
littles want left
All I want is the best of everything and there's very little of that left.
boredom firsts world
Perhaps the world's second worst crime is boredom. The first is being a bore.
inspirational life motivational
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.
casket clicks huge polish teeth
An old Polish frog... with a huge casket of jewels... and she clicks her teeth and shrugs, "Only Rubbish. Much more in Paris.
Oh, well, he couldn't do everything, could he?