Cecil Beaton
Biography
Quotes
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
