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All I want is the best of everything and there's very little of that left.
Americans have an abiding belief in their ability to control reality by purely material means... airline insurance replaces the fear of death with the comforting prospect of cash.
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.
I can't afford a whole new set of enem... (more Cecil Beaton quotes)
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Beaton in the Sixties: The Cecil Beaton Diaries as He Wrote Them, 1965-1969 by Cecil Beaton and Hugo Vickers |
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The Unexpurgated Beaton: The Cecil Beaton Diaries As He Wrote Them, 1970-1980 by Hugo Vickers |
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Cecil Beaton: A Biography by Hugo Vickers |