33 Quotes by Cecil Beaton

I can't afford a whole new set of enemies.

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

Miss Marilyn Monroe calls to mind the bouquet of a fireworks display, eliciting from her awed spectators an open-mouthed chorus of ohs and ahs ...

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

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.

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

I want to make photographs of very elegant women taking the lipstick off their teeth.

[He stared into the camera] like some sort of an animal gazing from across the back of its sty. (On Winston Churchill)

What is elegance? Soap and water!