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Cecil Beaton

b: London, England, Jan 14, 1904

d: Salisbury, England, Jan 18, 1980

English. Photographer. Designer. Major 1930s fashion photographer, won Oscars for costume desing for Gigi, 1959; My Fair Lady, 1964.

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An old Polish frog... with a huge casket of jewels... and she clicks her teeth and shrugs, Only Rubbish. Much more in Paris.

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.

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.

John Betjeman, with trousers too short, walking like a toddler on the sands; he only lacked a bucket and spade.

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.

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.

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.

Perhaps the world's second-worst crime is boredom; the first is being a bore.

She has a face that belongs to the sea and the wind, with large rocking-horse nostrils and teeth that you know just bite an apple every day.