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Cecil Beaton
English
Photographer
Born:
Jan 14
,
1904
Died:
Jan 18
,
1980
Ability
Circle
Control
Integrity
Made
Me
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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.
Cecil Beaton
Integrity
Vision
Will
Daring
Be Different
Purpose
Impractical
Different
Anything
Ordinary
Against
Commonplace
Assert
Creatures
Slaves
Imaginative
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
Sky
Rose
Background
Shades
Silver
Varied
More
Islands
Than
Any
Gold
Against
Landscape
Turquoise
Many
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
Result
Out
Gum
London
Inspection
Device
Principle
Box
Mixing
Chewing
Chewing Gum
Close
Turned
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
Death
Reality
Comforting
Fear
Control
Airline
Abide
Ability
Purely
Cash
Prospect
Insurance
Material
American
Means
Belief
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
Woman
Circle
Criticism
Stage
Back
Says
Worst
Dress
Like
She
Always
Hear
Blue
Created
Who
Even
Ear
Set
All I want is the best of everything and there's very little of that left.
Cecil Beaton
Best
Everything
Left
Very
Want
Little
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