Top 31 Quotes About Cecil Beaton: Famous Quotes & Sayings About Cecil Beaton

#1. It was a different social structure. I'd go to [David] Bailey's for dinner at 10:30. There were always girls there and a house full of ... I don't know, anybody. Cecil Beaton, Diana Cooper ... And there I am sitting down with these creatures of the 20th century, and it was normal to us.

Manolo Blahnik

#2. We used to say that inside Cecil Beaton there was another Cecil Beaton sending out lots of little Cecils into the world. One did the sets, another did the costumes. A third took the photographs. Another put the sketches in an exhibition, then into magazines, then in a book.

Alan Jay Lerner

#3. Various different people have inspired me throughout my career. From Francis Bacon to Vassareli, Coco Chanel to Christian Dior, Cecil Beaton, musicians, architects ... the list is endless.

Dries Van Noten

#4. At the beginning of my career, as a boy from Peru in London, suddenly discovering British culture and society, I looked so much at the work of the photographers Cecil Beaton and Norman Parkinson, which seemed to represent a wonderful vanished grandeur of my new country.

Mario Testino

#5. I started looking at fashion magazines, specifically 'British Vogue.' I was reading a lot about Cecil Beaton. Then I thought maybe I should start collecting.

Hamish Bowles

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

Cecil Beaton

#7. Decide what your currency is and let go of what you don't have.

Amy Poehler

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

Cecil Beaton

#9. Love is someone you can be silly with

Cecil Beaton

#10. What is elegance? Soap and water!

Cecil Beaton

#11. People are tired of liberty. They have had a surfeit of it. Liberty is no longer a chaste and austere virgin ... Today's youth are moved by other slogans ... Order, Hierarchy, Discipline.

Benito Mussolini

#12. 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

#13. Or maybe I'd lost my soul already. I doubted God let someone like me keep any gift from him. It was highly likely I'd been born without one.

Abbi Glines

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

Cecil Beaton

#15. 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

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

Cecil Beaton

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

Cecil Beaton

#18. For me, language is something that I've always loved. When I read, that's what I look for. When I write, that's what I strive for.

Patrick Rothfuss

#19. 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

#20. 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

#21. 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.

Cecil Beaton

#22. 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!

Cecil Beaton

#23. Sometimes, to escape a bad relationship and reclaim our lives, we have to break a piece of our heart off, like a wolf chews its leg off to escape a steel trap.

Bryant McGill

#24. 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 ...

Cecil Beaton

#25. 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

#26. 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