David Bailey quotes - page 2

My first influence obviously was Picasso. (David Bailey)
My friends are all megalomaniacs - from Damien Hirst to Jack Nicholson - all of them.
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I love learning new techniques.
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London changes because of money. It's real estate. If they can build some offices or expensive apartments they will, it's money that changes everything in a city.
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The skull is nature's sculpture.
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When I die I want to go to Vogue.
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I was surrounded by strong women so it had never even occurred to me that women were anything other than equal to men.
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I was a terrible father. The most I ever did for my children was to teach them chess. At least they got that.
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I'm never shocked, I'm not the shockable type!
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Being dyslexic, I was told that I was an idiot all the time.
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I am not responsible for all the journalists in the past that have told lies. (David Bailey)
I didn't know a time when there wasn't a war because I spent all my time from the age of two or three to eight in a coal cellar really.
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My paintings are rubbish.
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Journalists never make it clear when you are joking.
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I had a terrible time with feminists in the Seventies. They hated me, those women. I think they hated everything.
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I like change. There's something Buddhist about it - continuous change is wonderful.
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In '73 I photographed the cannibals in New Guinea. They treated me OK but they didn't make you feel relaxed... I managed to escape unscathed though, I'm pretty good at that.
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Sometimes I still can't believe my luck.
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I left school on my 15th birthday.
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I hate being so nostalgic about the Sixties.
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You have to kind of be invisible when you photograph children, so you use a longer lens. (David Bailey)
The only thing approaching art in a movie is the script.
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I was dyslexic, so I was put in the silly class at school.
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You adapt to who you're photographing.
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Being trendy is dangerous. I've never been trendy, which is why I've never really fallen out of favour.
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