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

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: photographer
  • Nationality: english
  • Birth: January 14, 1904 - January 18, 1980

Topics

IntegrityVisionPurposeBe Different

Running those poor steers back and forth in the heat is ridiculous. What they ought to do is put the steers in the convention hall and run the delegates.

Stanley Marcus

BackRidiculousRunPoorHeatForth

In the beginning, I didn't know if I was still a model, if I was an actress. I knew I wanted to be an actress, but it was so difficult to be believed.

Monica Bellucci

BeginningKnowDifficultActress

I was the funny one in my group; there was a lot pressure to be responsible for everyone's happiness. I didn't like watching other friends of mine be called the 'pretty one' or the 'smart one.' That had no depth, and it didn't match how I knew them.

Lucy Dacus

FunnyHappinessSmartPressureGroup

I have a strange career. I know it because people come up to me, like colleagues, and say, 'Chris, you have a strange career.'

Chris Adami

PeopleMeColleaguesYouCareerSay

When I am in form, my style is a little bit stubborn, almost brutal. Sometimes I feel a great spirit of fight which drives me on.

Boris Spassky

GreatStyleFightI AmMeStubborn

I gravitate toward floral and graphic prints.

Brad Goreski

PrintsGraphicGravitateToward

I'm a happy man, because I am successful in what I do, of course; but what makes me most happy is I have people around me that I love and who love me back. This, for me, is the most important thing. Nobody likes to be alone.

Novak Djokovic

LoveAloneManI AmHappyPeople

I love cities, I spend most of my life talking about cities. And the design of cities does have an effect on your life. You're lucky if you can see trees out of your window and you have a square nearby, or a bar, a cornershop, a surgery. Then you're living well.

Richard Rogers

LifeLoveWindowTreesDesignYou

The 12 years I was in Fleetwood Mac before were not particularly happy years. I was not in a very good place, psychologically, when I left. I didn't have a lot of confidence in what I was doing.

Lindsey Buckingham

GoodConfidenceHappyDoingPlace

You don't want to miss out on something and feel like an idiot.

Kevin Connolly

FeelIdiotYouWantOutSomething

There was one reviewer from the 'New York Times,' I forget his name, who said I was 'death warmed over.' I wrote him back that I knew more about death than he did. The 'Times' fired him, put him in the cooking department!

James Rosenquist

CookingDeathNew YorkNameBack

A soul is but the last bubble of a long fermentation in the world.

George Santayana

SoulWorldLongBubbleLast

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