David Bailey Quotes

I left school on my 15th birthday. ~ David Bailey

I didn't try and do fashion pictures. I tried to do portraits of girls wearing dresses. ~ David Bailey

You have to kind of be invisible when you photograph children, so you use a longer lens. ~ David Bailey

Rockers are the nicest people to photograph. They have no inhibitions. ~ David Bailey

In a way, a man's body is more beautiful than a woman's. ~ 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

The Sixties was a time of breaking down class barriers, although I think class still exists today in some areas. ~ David Bailey

Being trendy is dangerous. I've never been trendy, which is why I've never really fallen out of favour. ~ David Bailey

I've always been a bit flip. ~ David Bailey

Photography should be redefined. It's largely technical ... Photography is just unbelievably limiting. I always think of David Bailey and all the fashion photographers - they overlap, you can't always tell who did it. I don't really even like photography all that much. I just think it's so overdone. ~ Peter Beard

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

I've been used by women all my life, fortunately. ~ David Bailey

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. ~ David Bailey

The best advice I ever got was that knowledge is power and to keep reading. ~ David Bailey

You can't really copy what I do because I don't do anything. ~ David Bailey

I am mad about my wife. ~ David Bailey

I'm not really one for regrets. ~ David Bailey

Photography is more about money now but then so are most things. ~ David Bailey

I love learning new techniques. ~ David Bailey

Being dyslexic, I was told that I was an idiot all the time. ~ 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

Sometimes I still can't believe my luck. ~ David Bailey

I have never met an ugly woman. ~ David Bailey

Nothing wrong with retouching - nothing new about retouching. ~ David Bailey

The only thing approaching art in a movie is the script. ~ David Bailey

Girls are more attractive to me than dresses. ~ David Bailey

I don't feel very optimistic in London. ~ David Bailey

It's only a few nutcases who do art for themselves, like Van Gogh. ~ 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

I guess I'm the last of the Cockneys. ~ David Bailey

Kate Moss is the best thing since Jean Shrimpton, really. ~ David Bailey

I know everything should be photographed. It helps me make sense of my existence. ~ David Bailey

When I die I want to go to Vogue. ~ David Bailey

I'm not political and I don't judge. ~ David Bailey

I am not responsible for all the journalists in the past that have told lies. ~ David Bailey

Fashion often starts off beautiful and becomes ugly, whereas art starts off ugly sometimes and becomes beautiful. ~ David Bailey

The only thing they can't teach you at art school is art. ~ David Bailey

Being handsome wasn't much of a burden. It worked for me. ~ David Bailey

I have always wanted to live in the present and never the past. ~ David Bailey

I always look at people and think how I would cast them. ~ David Bailey

I'm not a philosopher, I'm just a simple boy from East Ham. ~ David Bailey

In France they don't think I'm difficult. ~ David Bailey

I always go for simplicity. ~ David Bailey

People want security in this insecure world. ~ David Bailey

The earth has a life of its own. ~ David Bailey

I don't think it matters where I came from any more. ~ David Bailey

If something becomes old-fashioned, it was no good to start with. Think about it. Michelangelo is not old-fashioned. ~ David Bailey

If you're curious, London's an amazing place. ~ David Bailey

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. ~ 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

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

A positive attitude can really make dreams come true - it did for me. ~ David Bailey

I hate men who are in touch with their feminine side. ~ David Bailey

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. ~ David Bailey

My father was a tailor, my mother a machinist. ~ David Bailey

John Parsons, the gay art director at 'Vogue,' really started my career. ~ David Bailey

I've always tried to do pictures that don't date. ~ 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

You adapt to who you're photographing. ~ David Bailey

I don't do proud. ~ David Bailey

My friends are all megalomaniacs - from Damien Hirst to Jack Nicholson - all of them. ~ David Bailey

I could develop a picture by the time I was 12. ~ David Bailey

The skull is nature's sculpture. ~ David Bailey

Fortunately I didn't get educated because if I'd got educated I'd be an educated fool now. ~ David Bailey

I don't think my work does reflect my nationality - I don't like the idea of nationalism. ~ David Bailey

My paintings are rubbish. ~ 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

I hate being so nostalgic about the Sixties. ~ 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. ~ David Bailey

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. ~ David Bailey

I had a terrible time with feminists in the Seventies. They hated me, those women. I think they hated everything. ~ David Bailey

If I have any sexist feelings they are aimed at men: I hate manly men. ~ David Bailey

I love people for giving me their time. It's a privilege - I make the most of it. ~ David Bailey

I've never been anti-women. ~ 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 did painting before I did photography. ~ 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 dyslexic, so I was put in the silly class at school. ~ David Bailey

I like naughty boys. I was married to David Bailey, who was one of the naughtiest. I like real men, and I like masculinity. ~ Marie Helvin

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've had some weird experiences. ~ David Bailey

Hope is a start. But hope needs action to win victories ~ David J. Schwartz

I also think the relationship I have with my audience is a lot more complex than what Hitchcock seemed to want his to be - although I think he had more going on under the surface as well. ~ David Cronenberg

Infinity lies beyond human vision and it is possible to communicate with these other realities which have a far more advanced awareness than humans are allowed to have ~ David Icke

Eople with character may be loud or quiet, but they do tend to have a certain level of self
respect. Self
respect is not the same as self
confidence or self
esteem. Self
respect is not based on IQ or any of the mental or physical gifts that help get you into a competitive college. It is not comparative. It is not earned by being better than other people at something. It is earned by being better than you used to be, by being dependable in times of testing, straight in times of temptation. It emerges in one who is morally dependable. Self
respect is produced by inner triumphs, not external ones. It can only be earned by a person who has endured some internal temptation, who has confronted their own weaknesses and who knows, Well, if worse comes to worst, I can endure that. I can overcome that. ~ David Brooks

The Lord may want to colonise other Worlds with His new perfect children! What's the whole Universe for and all this huge amount of space if He's only interested in colonising one little Planet? What an incubation! What an incubator for other civilizations!-Right here on the New Earth and the Heavenly City! ~ David Berg

We are concerned with the relationship between art and life. Contemporary art is only intelligible in terms of its relationship to our life. ~ David Elliott

Where would rock and roll be without feedback? ~ David Gilmour

If Occupy Wall Street can see their way to more collaboration with the union movement, then there will be a great deal of political action possible. ~ David Harvey

Dreamt I stood in a china shop so crowded from floor to far-off ceiling with shelves of porcelain antiques, etc. that moving a muscle would cause several to fall and smash to bits. Exactly what happened but instead of a crashing noise, an august chord rang out, half cello, half celeste, D major (?), held for four beats. My wrist knocked a Ming vase affair off its pedestal-E flat. Whole string section, glorious, transcendant, angels wept. Deliberately now, smashed a figurine of an ox for the next note, then a milkmaid, then Saturday's Child-orgy of shrapnel filled the air, divine harmonies my head. ~ David Mitchell

The odd thing about recurring dreams is that, no matter how many times you dream the same thing, it always takes you by surprise. ~ David Small

I'm the last person to tell you that you need a guy to make you happy. But if you're not moving on because you're afraid you'll hurt David, maybe you need to remember that you're hurting Tamani by not moving on, and you might be hurting David by not letting him move on. If
and I'm not saying you should choose him, but if
you really love Tamani, and you keep putting him off because of David, by the time you're finally ready to be with him, you may find that he's moved on. That's all I'm going to say ... ~ Aprilynne Pike

Well, at first the band were simply called Horsepower, but a lot of people thought that was something to do with heroin. That really pissed me off, so I decided to put something in front of it to distract them. I got '16' from a traditional American folk song, where a man is singing about his dead wife and 16 black horses are pulling her casket up to the cemetery. I liked the image of 16 working horses. ~ David Eugene Edwards

Sometimes ... we find that even when we do our best to serve the Lord, we still suffer. You may know someone who faces these most challenging of circumstances: consider the parent whose child becomes ill, for whom everyone prays and fasts with all their heart and soul, but who ultimately dies. Or the missionary who sacrifices to go on a mission, then develops a terrible illness that leaves him or her severely disabled or in chronic pain. ~ David E. Sorensen

Loneliness is not intolerable when enthusiasm for a quest fills the mind. ~ David Grann

And still, for all the jealously, all the doubt, sometimes I will be struck with a kind of awe that we're together. That someone like me could find someone like you
it renders me wordless. Because surely words would conspire against such luck, would protest the unlikelihood of such a turn of events. ~ David Levithan

Online life is so delicious because it is socializing with almost no friction. ~ David Brooks

Mal!"
"What?"
"Close the door down there and lock it," David yelled. "Don't you come up here under any circumstances. Not till I tell you it's okay. Understood?"
There was a pause then Mal yelled back. "What if there's a fire?"
"Burn. ~ Kylie Scott

Disease is a manifestation of human thought because it is ideas, worldviews, and beliefs that create the conditions in which a society can be riddled with disease, strife, and poverty, or can continue in health and harmony. ~ F. David Peat