David Bailey Quotes

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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 of looking before you learn to see the extraordinary.

  David Bailey

  Photography, Art, Learning

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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

  Girl, Witty, Fashion

  1990 In The Independent, 5 Nov.

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• Anybody can be a great photographer if they zoom in enough on what they love.

  David Bailey

  Zoom, Photographer, Enough

  "The old Bailey" by Simon Hattenstone, www.theguardian.com. July 29, 2002.

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

  David Bailey

  Inspirational, Positive, Dream

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• To get rich, you have to be making money while you're asleep.

  David Bailey

  Money, Rich, Making Money

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

  David Bailey

  Reading, Knowledge And Power, Advice

  "This Much I Know: David Bailey". Interview with Alice Fisher, www.theguardian.com. February 20, 2010.

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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

  Photography, People, Fingers Crossed

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• I know everything should be photographed. It helps me make sense of my existence.

  David Bailey

  Helping, Help Me, Should

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• 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

  Fashion, Hate, Integrity

  "Question time: David Bailey" by Hannah Pool, www.theguardian.com. September 2, 2009.

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• People want security in this insecure world.

  David Bailey

  Insecure, People, World

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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 something dead.

  David Bailey

  Thinking, People, Special

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• I never set out to be a photographer.

  David Bailey

  Photographer

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

  David Bailey

  Favour, Trendy, Dangerous

  "David Bailey: What I've Learned" by Johnny Davis, www.esquire.com. June 2, 2014.

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

  David Bailey

  Girl, Fashion, Trying

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

  David Bailey

  Copies

  "Di wasn't a great beauty" by Lynn Barber, www.theguardian.com. November 20, 2005.

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

  David Bailey

  Art, School, Teach

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

  David Bailey

  Art, Vans

  "David Bailey: out of his skulls". Interview with Stuart Jeffries, www.theguardian.com. August 25, 2010.

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• Fashion often starts off beautiful and becomes ugly, whereas art starts off ugly sometimes and becomes beautiful.

  David Bailey

  Beautiful, Fashion, Art

  "Di wasn't a great beauty". Interview with Lynn Barber, www.theguardian.com. November 20, 2005.

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

  David Bailey

  Photography, People, Rockers

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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 sexual intercourse.

  David Bailey

  Drinking, Exercise, Body

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

  David Bailey

  Used

  "Question time: David Bailey" by Hannah Pool, www.theguardian.com. September 2, 2009.

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• Being handsome wasn't much of a burden. It worked for me.

  David Bailey

  Handsome, Burden

  "David Bailey: What I've Learned" by Johnny Davis, www.esquire.com. June 2, 2014.

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• I always go for simplicity.

  David Bailey

  Simplicity

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• Girls are more attractive to me than dresses.

  David Bailey

  Girl, Dresses, Attractive

  "Di wasn't a great beauty". Interview with Lynn Barber, www.theguardian.com. November 20, 2005.

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

  David Bailey

  Fool, Educated, Educated Fools

  The Scene Interview, edition.cnn.com. November 3, 2006.

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