33 Quotes by Cecil Beaton


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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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    An old Polish frog... with a huge casket of jewels... and she clicks her teeth and shrugs, "Only Rubbish. Much more in Paris.

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

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

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  • Author Cecil Beaton
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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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