After 20 annual visits, I am still surprised each time I return to see this giant asparagus bed of alabaster and rose and green skyscrapers.
– 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 the comforting prospect of cash.
– Cecil Beaton
An old Polish frog... with a huge casket of jewels... and she clicks her teeth and shrugs, Only Rubbish. Much more in Paris.
– Cecil Beaton
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.
– Cecil Beaton
I can't afford a whole new set of enemies.
– Cecil Beaton
I have the worst ear for criticism; even when I have created a stage set I like, I always hear the woman in the back of the dress circle who says she doesn't like blue.
– 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.
– Cecil Beaton
Mrs Woolf's complaint should be addressed to her creator, who made her, rather than me.
– Cecil Beaton
Never in the history of fashion has so little material been raised so high to reveal so much that needs to be covered so badly.
– Cecil Beaton
On close inspection, this device turned out to be a funereal juke box - the result of mixing Lloyd's of London with the principle of the chewing gum dispenser.
– Cecil Beaton
Perhaps the world's second-worst crime is boredom; the first is being a bore.