David Bailey Quotes
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I was dyslexic, so I was put in the silly class at school.
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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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I like change. There's something Buddhist about it - continuous change is wonderful.
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The skull is nature's sculpture.
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I suppose because my work was so popular people didn't really look at it.
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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.
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In a way, a man's body is more beautiful than a woman's.
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Girls are more attractive to me than dresses.
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People want security in this insecure world.
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I left school on my 15th birthday.
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I'm not mad about movies, there are too many people involved in the making of them, and they lack a definitive creative focus.
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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.
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I'm not a philosopher, I'm just a simple boy from East Ham.
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I love people for giving me their time. It's a privilege - I make the most of it.
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I don't think it matters where I came from any more.
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If something becomes old-fashioned, it was no good to start with. Think about it. Michelangelo is not old-fashioned.
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I guess I'm the last of the Cockneys.
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The earth has a life of its own.
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I've always tried to do pictures that don't date.
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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.
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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.
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I was ten when I got my first serious beating. It was rough.
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I did painting before I did photography.
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When I die I want to go to Vogue.