Quotes by david bailey
The Sixties was a time of breaking down class barriers, although I think class still exists today in some areas.
I love people for giving me their time. It's a privilege - I make the most of it.
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.
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.
You can't really copy what I do because I don't do anything.
I always go for simplicity.
I don't think my work does reflect my nationality - I don't like the idea of nationalism.
Nothing wrong with retouching - nothing new about retouching.
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.
Anybody can be a great photographer if they zoom in enough on what they love.
I did painting before I did photography.
Photography is more about money now but then so are most things.
I guess I'm the last of the Cockneys.
Sometimes I still can't believe my luck.
Rockers are the nicest people to photograph. They have no inhibitions.
Being handsome wasn't much of a burden. It worked for me.
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.
I suppose because my work was so popular people didn't really look at it.
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.
I was surrounded by strong women so it had never even occurred to me that women were anything other than equal to men.
The skull is nature's sculpture.
Rather than knowing more, I think I've got more open-minded.
If I have any sexist feelings they are aimed at men: I hate manly men.
I'm not political and I don't judge.
I used to love the '20s.
