Cecil Beaton

Photographer

1904-01-14 – 1980-01-18

British photographer, designer, and diarist known for influential portrait and fashion work. He photographed royalty, artists, and celebrities and also designed costumes and sets for stage and film. Beaton won Academy Awards for his design work on major film productions.

Quotes by 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 many shades of turquoise and azure.
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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.
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