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

Cecil Beaton

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Cecil Beaton
Age: 76 †
Born: 1904
Born: January 14
Died: 1980
Died: January 18
Autobiographer
Costume Designer
Diarist
Fashion Photographer
Illustrator
Painter
Photographer
Scenographer
War Photographer
London
England
Sir Cecil Walter Hardy Beaton
Sir Cecil Beaton
Cecil Walter Hardy Beaton
Cecil Beaton (Sir)
Walter Hardy
Assured
Frank
Tactful
Intelligent
Wistful
Without
Sentimentality
Alert
Conceit
Enthusiastic
Tender

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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!
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I want to make photographs of very elegant women taking the lipstick off their teeth.
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Love is someone you can be silly with
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The truly fashionable are beyond fashion.
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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.
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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.
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All I want is the best of everything and there's very little of that left.
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[He stared into the camera] like some sort of an animal gazing from across the back of its sty. (On Winston Churchill)
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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.
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