You can't teach people photography, they've got to learn how to do it the best way possible for them. They can learn from looking at pictures taken by well-known people, but they don't really get intimate with the medium until they've made a few bad shots!
Cecil BeatonA technical failure that shows some attempt at aesthetic expression is of infinitely more value than uninspired success.
Cecil BeatonMore 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 BeatonIntelligent and alert, wistful but enthusiastic, frank yet tactful, assured without conceit and tender without sentimentality.
Cecil Beaton