Intelligent and alert, wistful but enthusiastic, frank yet tactful, assured without conceit and tender without sentimentality.
Cecil BeatonBe 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 BeatonA technical failure that shows some attempt at aesthetic expression is of infinitely more value than uninspired success.
Cecil Beaton