David Bailey quotes

A positive attitude can really make dreams come true - it did for me. (David Bailey)
To get rich, you have to be making money while you're asleep.
David Bailey
The best advice I ever got was that knowledge is power and to keep reading.
David Bailey
The only thing they can't teach you at art school is art.
David Bailey
It takes a lot of imagination to be a good photographer. You need less imagination to be a painter because you can invent things. But in photography everything is so ordinary; it takes a lot of looking before you learn to see the extraordinary.
David Bailey
I never cared for fashion much, amusing little seams and witty little pleats: it was the girls I liked.
David Bailey
Anybody can be a great photographer if they zoom in enough on what they love.
David Bailey
I know everything should be photographed. It helps me make sense of my existence.
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I never tried to revolutionise photography; I just do what I do and keep my fingers crossed that people will like it.
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I never set out to be a photographer.
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People want security in this insecure world. (David Bailey)
All pictures are unnatural. All pictures are sad because they're about dead people. Paintings you don't think of in a special time or with a specific event. With photos I always think I'm looking at something dead.
David Bailey
The reason I did fashion was it was the only way to get paid to do anything creative. You couldn't support yourself as an 'artist' - I hate that word. The only way you could be 'arty' was as a fashion photographer, because it still had a certain amount of integrity involved.
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I didn't try and do fashion pictures. I tried to do portraits of girls wearing dresses.
David Bailey
Fashion often starts off beautiful and becomes ugly, whereas art starts off ugly sometimes and becomes beautiful.
David Bailey
Rockers are the nicest people to photograph. They have no inhibitions.
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I always go for simplicity.
David Bailey
It is a sign of a dull nature to occupy oneself deeply in matters that concern the body; for instance, to be over much occupied about exercise, about eating and drinking, about easing oneself, about sexual intercourse.
David Bailey
Girls are more attractive to me than dresses.
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I hate men who are in touch with their feminine side.
David Bailey
The Sixties was a time of breaking down class barriers, although I think class still exists today in some areas. (David Bailey)
I was ten when I got my first serious beating. It was rough.
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I've been used by women all my life, fortunately.
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All I could do at school was paint and draw and that was the only time I ever passed any exam. It was the only thing I ever got right at school.
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I didn't know I was going to live for 50 years. It has come as a shock.
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