Cecil Beaton > Quotes

“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

“Be daring, be different, be impractical;
be anything that will assert integrity
of purpose and imaginative vision
against the play-it-safers.”
― Cecil Beaton

“Perhaps the world s second worst crime is boredom. The first is being a bore.”
― Sir Cecil Walter Hardy Beaton

“The truly fashionable are beyond fashion. ”
― Cecil Beaton

“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

“passport”
― Cecil Beaton, The Years Between: 1939-44

“Preguntaron a Cecil Beaton: ¿qué es la elegancia? Y respondió: agua y jabón. Que es lo mismo que decir: lo elegante es lo sencillo, lo útil, lo de toda la vida. La elegancia involuntaria se asocia al gesto generoso, a la alegría discreta, a la persona que aporta y apacigua.”
― Cecil Beaton