David Bailey Quotes
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Rockers are the nicest people to photograph. They have no inhibitions.
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Anybody can be a great photographer if they zoom in enough on what they love.
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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.
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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.
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Everyone gets old - there's nothing you can do about it.
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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 in.
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John Parsons, the gay art director at 'Vogue,' really started my career.
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I hate being so nostalgic about the Sixties.
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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.
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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 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.
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I never cared for fashion much, amusing little seams and witty little pleats: it was the girls I liked.
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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.
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Fortunately I didn't get educated because if I'd got educated I'd be an educated fool now.
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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 brownie in 1885 when it came out. It makes photography interesting because everyone thinks they can take a picture.
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I have never met an ugly woman.
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I'm never shocked, I'm not the shockable type!
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My friends are all megalomaniacs - from Damien Hirst to Jack Nicholson - all of them.
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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.
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Fashion often starts off beautiful and becomes ugly, whereas art starts off ugly sometimes and becomes beautiful.
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Sometimes I still can't believe my luck.
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I've always been a bit flip.
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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.
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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.
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The best advice I ever got was that knowledge is power and to keep reading.