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David Bailey [1938-0] English

David Royston Bailey, CBE is an English fashion and portrait photographer.

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Quote	Tags	Rank
A positive attitude can really make dreams come true - it did for me.	Attitude, Dreams, Positive	101
The best advice I ever got was that knowledge is power and to keep reading.	Best, Knowledge, Power	102
To get rich, you have to be making money while you're asleep.	Money	103
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.	Time	104
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.	Good, Imagination	105
Being handsome wasn't much of a burden. It worked for me.		106
I don't think my work does reflect my nationality - I don't like the idea of nationalism.		107
The skull is nature's sculpture.	Nature	108
Botticelli would have made a very good fashion photographer. He did eight heads instead of seven heads in a body, which is fashion illustration.		109
Rockers are the nicest people to photograph. They have no inhibitions.		110
I hate being so nostalgic about the Sixties.		111
If you're curious, London's an amazing place.	Amazing	112
Being trendy is dangerous. I've never been trendy, which is why I've never really fallen out of favour.		113
Anybody can be a great photographer if they zoom in enough on what they love.		114
It's not about composition. It's the way you feel about how your objects should relate to each other. I've got lots of African statues and things, and the cleaner arranges them like soldiers, which drives me mad. So I have to rearrange them, and I must drive her mad, because I'm doing anarchy and she's doing military manoeuvres.		115
I don't see the point of photographing trees or rocks because they're there and anyone can photograph them if they're prepared to hang around and wait for the light.		116
I didn't try and do fashion pictures. I tried to do portraits of girls wearing dresses.		117
I sort of fall in love with them when I'm photographing them - men and women.		118
The first half of the 20th century belongs to Picasso, and the second half is about photography. They said digital would kill photography because everyone can do it, but they said that about the box brownie in 1885 when it came out. It makes photography interesting because everyone thinks they can take a picture.		119
People want security in this insecure world.		120
I have always wanted to live in the present and never the past.		121
You adapt to who you're photographing.		122
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.		123
I just thought it was magic that you could stick a bit of paper in some coffee-type liquid and a picture comes out.		124
Fortunately I didn't get educated because if I'd got educated I'd be an educated fool now.		125
The only thing they can't teach you at art school is art.		126
I never tried to revolutionise photography; I just do what I do and keep my fingers crossed that people will like it.		201
Rather than knowing more, I think I've got more open-minded.		202
I've always been a bit flip.		203
In a way, a man's body is more beautiful than a woman's.		204
Girls are more attractive to me than dresses.		205
The trouble with people like Tony Blair is they get confused, they think intelligence is education when they're two different things.	Intelligence	206
There's nothing wrong with being a fashion photographer, but it's a bit limited.		207
If something becomes old-fashioned, it was no good to start with. Think about it. Michelangelo is not old-fashioned.		208
Kate Moss is the best thing since Jean Shrimpton, really.		209
The Sixties was a time of breaking down class barriers, although I think class still exists today in some areas.		210
When I die I want to go to Vogue.		211
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.	Sad	212
I always go for simplicity.		213
You can't really copy what I do because I don't do anything.		214
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.		215
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.		216
I was surrounded by strong women so it had never even occurred to me that women were anything other than equal to men.		217
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.		218
I know everything should be photographed. It helps me make sense of my existence.		219
Fashion often starts off beautiful and becomes ugly, whereas art starts off ugly sometimes and becomes beautiful.		220
I have never met an ugly woman.		221
I don't think global warming is to do with us, I think it's a natural circle. I don't think a few Ferraris make that much difference.		222
It always amazes me when people ask you to do something and then tell you how to do it.		223
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.		224
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.		225
I never cared for fashion much, amusing little seams and witty little pleats: it was the girls I liked.		226
I never set out to be a photographer.		301
I could develop a picture by the time I was 12.		302
I've always tried to do pictures that don't date.		303
My exploits are nothing now to the average person.		304
I've never been anti-women.		305
I've been used by women all my life, fortunately.		306
Everyone gets old - there's nothing you can do about it.		307
I left school on my 15th birthday.	Birthday	308
My first influence obviously was Picasso.		309
I was dyslexic, so I was put in the silly class at school.		310
I guess I'm the last of the Cockneys.		311
Being dyslexic, I was told that I was an idiot all the time.		312
My friends are all megalomaniacs - from Damien Hirst to Jack Nicholson - all of them.		313
I had a terrible time with feminists in the Seventies. They hated me, those women. I think they hated everything.		314
I was ten when I got my first serious beating. It was rough.		315
In France they don't think I'm difficult.		316
I was a terrible father. The most I ever did for my children was to teach them chess. At least they got that.		317
I hate men who are in touch with their feminine side.		318
I like change. There's something Buddhist about it - continuous change is wonderful.		319
I'm not political and I don't judge.		320
I don't feel very optimistic in London.		321
I've had some weird experiences.		322
I am mad about my wife.		323
All my ex-girlfriends or wives are all kind of great friends and I've never understood somebody who can live with somebody for five or six years and then not like them.		324
I did painting before I did photography.		325
Sometimes I still can't believe my luck.		326
I suppose because my work was so popular people didn't really look at it.		401
Nothing wrong with retouching - nothing new about retouching.		402
I love people for giving me their time. It's a privilege - I make the most of it.		403
I always look at people and think how I would cast them.		404
When I stop working, I go out and start working again. Most people paint a picture, or whatever they do, and go home. For me, it has to be continuous.		405
You have to kind of be invisible when you photograph children, so you use a longer lens.		406
I don't think it matters where I came from any more.		407
I'm never shocked, I'm not the shockable type!		408
I am not responsible for all the journalists in the past that have told lies.		409
Journalists never make it clear when you are joking.		410
My paintings are rubbish.		411
The earth has a life of its own.		412
I'm not really one for regrets.		413
I don't like any sport except boxing and bull fighting.		414
I used to love the '20s.		415
My father was a tailor, my mother a machinist.		416
I'm not mad about movies, there are too many people involved in the making of them, and they lack a definitive creative focus.		417
The only thing approaching art in a movie is the script.		418
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.		419
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.		420
I don't do proud.		421
I'm not a philosopher, I'm just a simple boy from East Ham.		422
I love learning new techniques.		423
I'm an image-maker.		424
It's only a few nutcases who do art for themselves, like Van Gogh.		425
I didn't know I was going to live for 50 years. It has come as a shock.		426
John Parsons, the gay art director at 'Vogue,' really started my career.		501
I think about death all the time. I know there's nothing out there, but I'm curious. There's a 300 billion-to-one chance that there might be an energy that goes somewhere else, but I doubt it.		502
I don't really like the term 'artist.' I'm not sure what it means. It's a bit like 'love.'		503
Good shoes are important. I wear English brogues in a wide fitting. They last me years.		504
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.		505
Photography is more about money now but then so are most things.		506
If I have any sexist feelings they are aimed at men: I hate manly men.		507
Actors are hard to photograph because they never want to reveal who they are. You don't know if you're getting a character from a Chekhov play or a Polanski film. It depends what mood they're in.		508

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