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

- Cecil Beaton

A technical failure that shows some attempt at aesthetic expression is of infinitely more value than uninspired success.

- Cecil Beaton

Americans have an abiding belief in their ability to control reality by purely material means... airline insurance replaces the fear of death with th…

- Cecil Beaton

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 …

- Cecil Beaton

Love is someone you can be silly with

- Cecil Beaton

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 b…

- Cecil Beaton

All I want is the best of everything and there's very little of that left.

- Cecil Beaton

The truly fashionable are beyond fashion.

- Cecil Beaton

Perhaps the world's second worst crime is boredom. The first is being a bore.

- Cecil Beaton