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. Routines have their purposes, but the merely routi
Source: Advice to theatrical designers, The Secret of How to Startle Theatre Arts, May 1957.
-- Cecil Beaton, (Jan 14 1904-1980), English photographer; He is noted primarily for his decorative portraits of celebrated persons.