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Cecil Beaton Biography

Sir Cecil Walter Hardy Beaton CBE (14 January 1904 – 18 January 1980) was an English fashion, portrait and war photographer, diarist, painter, interior designer and an Oscar–winning stage and costume designer for films and the theatre.

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I want to make photographs of very elegant women taking the lipstick off their teeth.

Lipstick, Make, Photograph, Teeth, Want

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.

Against, Azure, Gold, Islands, Rose, Sky

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

Enemies, Enemy, I Can, Set, Whole

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

Bore, Boredom, Firsts, World, Worst

What is elegance? Soap and water!

Elegance, Soap, Soap And Water, Water

A technical failure that shows some attempt at aesthetic expression is of infinitely more value than uninspired success.

Aesthetic, Expression, Failure, Shows, Technical

San Francisco is perhaps the most European of all American cities

American, Bay Area, Cities, European, San Francisco

[He stared into the camera] like some sort of an animal gazing from across the back of its sty. (On Winston Churchill)

Animal, Back, Cameras, Churchill, Gazing

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.

Blue, Circles, Criticism, Dress, Ear

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.

Box, Chewing, Funereal, Gum, Mixing, Principles

Intelligent and alert, wistful but enthusiastic, frank yet tactful, assured without conceit and tender without sentimentality.

Conceit, Enthusiastic, Intelligent, Tactful

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.

Fashion, History, Needs, Style

Love is someone you can be silly with

Family, Happiness, Love, Silly

After twenty annual visits, I am still surprised each time I return to see this giant asparagus bed of alabaster and rose and green skyscrapers.

Annual, Asparagus, Bed, Rose, Twenties

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.

Airline Business, Belief, Fear, Insurance, Mean, Reality

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.

Assert, Daring, Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Vision

Miss Marilyn Monroe calls to mind the bouquet of a fireworks display, eliciting from her awed spectators an open-mouthed chorus of ohs and ahs.

Bouquet, Bouquets, Eliciting, Fireworks, Mind, Missing

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!

Bad, Medium, People, Photography, Taken

The truly fashionable are beyond fashion.

Fashion, Fashionable, Style

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

Everything, Left, Littles, Want

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