“Be daring, be different, be impractical;
be anything that will assert integrity
of purpose and imaginative vision
against the play-it-safers.”
“Perhaps the world’s second worst crime is boredom. The first is being a bore.”
“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.”
“I can’t afford a whole new set of enemies.”
“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.”
“All I want is the best of everything and there’s very little of that left.”
CECIL BEATON 