Portrait of Marianne Faithfull

Photograph by Cecil Beaton

Pablo Picasso

By Cecil Beaton, 1960

Portrait of a Young Victim of the Blitz

Three-year-old English girl recovering from head injury suffered during a German air raid on her Northern English village.

Photo by Sir Cecil Beaton, 1940

Criticism and photographers

“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

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.
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Cecil Beaton – fragment

“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