Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert… — Cecil Beaton

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 BeatonPhotographer · English · 1904 – 1980

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