David Bailey Quotes
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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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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.
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Botticelli would have made a very good fashion photographer. He did eight heads instead of seven heads in a body, which is fashion illustration.
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I'm not political and I don't judge.
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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 pictures, it's not magic - it's a picture done by committee.
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I love learning new techniques.
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My first influence obviously was Picasso.
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You adapt to who you're photographing.
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I always look at people and think how I would cast them.
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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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I could develop a picture by the time I was 12.
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There's nothing wrong with being a fashion photographer, but it's a bit limited.
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The only thing approaching art in a movie is the script.
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It's only a few nutcases who do art for themselves, like Van Gogh.
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I have always wanted to live in the present and never the past.
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I am not responsible for all the journalists in the past that have told lies.
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I don't really like the term 'artist.' I'm not sure what it means. It's a bit like 'love.'
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If I have any sexist feelings they are aimed at men: I hate manly men.
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I don't like any sport except boxing and bull fighting.
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To get rich, you have to be making money while you're asleep.
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I suppose because my work was so popular people didn't really look at it.
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When I stop working, I go out and start working again. Most people paint a picture, or whatever they do, and go home. For me, it has to be continuous.
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In a way, a man's body is more beautiful than a woman's.
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Photography is more about money now but then so are most things.