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David Bailey  Quotes
I always go for simplicity.

—David Bailey

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I like change. There’s something Buddhist about it – continuous change is wonderful.

—David Bailey

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The only thing they can’t teach you at art school is art.

—David Bailey

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

—David Bailey

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

—David Bailey

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

—David Bailey

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Cast
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I have always wanted to live in the present and never the past.

—David Bailey

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I have never met an ugly woman.

—David Bailey

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In France they don’t think I’m difficult.

—David Bailey

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I’ve been used by women all my life, fortunately.

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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...

—David Bailey

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I never cared for fashion much, amusing little seams and witty little pleats: it was the girls I liked.

—David Bailey

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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

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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...

—David Bailey

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The trouble with people like Tony Blair is they get confused, they think intelligence is education when they’re two different things.

—David Bailey

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

—David Bailey

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LiesPast
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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

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

—David Bailey

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It always amazes me when people ask you to do something and then tell you how to do it.

—David Bailey

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I’ve had some weird experiences.

—David Bailey

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Weird
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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.

—David Bailey

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Sometimes I still can’t believe my luck.

—David Bailey

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Luck
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Everyone gets old – there’s nothing you can do about it.

—David Bailey

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Gets
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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

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Girls are more attractive to me than dresses.

—David Bailey

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I could develop a picture by the time I was 12.

—David Bailey

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DevelopPicture
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I sort of fall in love with them when I’m photographing them – men and women.

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

—David Bailey

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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

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

—David Bailey

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FewThemselves
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I’ve never been anti-women.

—David Bailey

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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...

—David Bailey

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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.

—David Bailey

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Good shoes are important. I wear English brogues in a wide fitting. They last me years.

—David Bailey

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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.

—David Bailey

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You can’t really copy what I do because I don’t do anything.

—David Bailey

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I did painting before I did photography.

—David Bailey

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Painting
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I suppose because my work was so popular people didn’t really look at it.

—David Bailey

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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...

—David Bailey

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LearnLess
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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.

—David Bailey

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John Parsons, the gay art director at ‘Vogue,’ really started my career.

—David Bailey

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

—David Bailey

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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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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...

—David Bailey

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I don’t do proud.

—David Bailey

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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...

—David Bailey

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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...

—David Bailey

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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

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I used to love the ’20s.

—David Bailey

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A positive attitude can really make dreams come true – it did for me.

—David Bailey

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