Be daring, be different, be... by Cecil Beaton, an English Photographer

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“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.”

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Cecil Beaton

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Name: Cecil Beaton

Nationality: English

Date of Birth: Jan 14, 1904

Date of Death: Jan 18, 1980

Profession: Photographer

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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.

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