David Bailey 60 Solitary Quotes | Status Free Download
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A positive attitude can really make dreams come true - it did for me.
— David Bailey
The best advice I ever got was that knowledge is power and to keep reading.
— David Bailey
Being handsome wasn't much of a burden. It worked for me.
— David Bailey
I always go for simplicity.
— David Bailey
Anybody can be a great photographer if they zoom in enough on what they love.
— David Bailey
Nothing wrong with retouching - nothing new about retouching.
— David Bailey
I was surrounded by strong women so it had never even occurred to me that women were anything other than equal to men.
— David Bailey
The trouble with people like Tony Blair is they get confused, they think intelligence is education when they're two different things.
— David Bailey
I don't really like the term 'artist.' I'm not sure what it means. It's a bit like 'love.'
— David Bailey
Instead of putting someone in prison for being a hooligan, give him a choice. He may have beaten someone up and he's got eight years, but tell him you can do eight years inside or spend five years in the Army. Put him in the Parachute Regiment, they'd soon sort him out.
— 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
I have always wanted to live in the present and never the past.
— David Bailey
Rockers are the nicest people to photograph. They have no inhibitions.
— David Bailey
Rather than knowing more, I think I've got more open-minded.
— David Bailey
Every man who is high up loves to think that he has done it all himself; and the wife smiles, and lets it go at that.
— David Bailey
I never cared for fashion much, amusing little seams and witty little pleats: it was the girls I liked.
— David Bailey
I hate being so nostalgic about the Sixties.
— David Bailey
I could develop a picture by the time I was 12.
— David Bailey
I've always tried to do pictures that don't date.
— David Bailey
You can't really copy what I do because I don't do anything.
— 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.
— David Bailey
Everyone gets old - there's nothing you can do about it.
— David Bailey
I just thought it was magic that you could stick a bit of paper in some coffee-type liquid and a picture comes out.
— David Bailey
I sort of fall in love with them when I'm photographing them - men and women.
— David Bailey
I guess I'm the last of the Cockneys.
— David Bailey
Fortunately I didn't get educated because if I'd got educated I'd be an educated fool now.
— David Bailey
In New York, everyone's desperate for success, desperate for money and desperate to be accepted, but in London they're more laid back about things like that.
— David Bailey
The only thing they can't teach you at art school is art.
— David Bailey
To get rich, you have to be making money while you're asleep.
— David Bailey
The skull is nature's sculpture.
— 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
If you're curious, London's an amazing place.
— David Bailey
People want security in this insecure world.
— David Bailey
Photography is more about money now but then so are most things.
— David Bailey
I was ten when I got my first serious beating. It was rough.
— David Bailey
I didn't know I was going to live for 50 years. It has come as a shock.
— David Bailey
If I have any sexist feelings they are aimed at men: I hate manly men.
— David Bailey
When I die I want to go to Vogue.
— David Bailey
I left school on my 15th birthday.
— David Bailey
If something becomes old-fashioned, it was no good to start with. Think about it. Michelangelo is not old-fashioned.
— David Bailey
I won't do advertising if they bring a layout and say, 'This is what we want to do,' because anybody can do that; it's not interesting. They've got digital and the computer; it's not taking pictures, it's not magic - it's a picture done by committee.
— David Bailey
My father was a tailor, my mother a machinist.
— 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
I never set out to be a photographer.
— David Bailey
You adapt to who you're photographing.
— David Bailey
I didn't try and do fashion pictures. I tried to do portraits of girls wearing dresses.
— David Bailey
My exploits are nothing now to the average person.
— David Bailey
I've never been anti-women.
— David Bailey
I've been used by women all my life, fortunately.
— David Bailey
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.
— David Bailey
My first influence obviously was Picasso.
— David Bailey
I was dyslexic, so I was put in the silly class at school.
— David Bailey
Being dyslexic, I was told that I was an idiot all the time.
— David Bailey
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.
— David Bailey
My friends are all megalomaniacs - from Damien Hirst to Jack Nicholson - all of them.
— David Bailey
I never tried to revolutionise photography; I just do what I do and keep my fingers crossed that people will like it.
— David Bailey
I was a terrible father. The most I ever did for my children was to teach them chess. At least they got that.
— David Bailey
I hate men who are in touch with their feminine side.
— David Bailey
In France they don't think I'm difficult.
— David Bailey
I had a terrible time with feminists in the Seventies. They hated me, those women. I think they hated everything.
— David Bailey
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