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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
Mrs Woolf’s complaint should be addressed to her creator, who made her, rather than me. Cecil Beaton Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
Perhaps the world’s second-worst crime is boredom; the first is being a bore. Cecil Beaton Read Quote
