David Bailey Quotes
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Photography is more about money now but then so are most things.
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I don't like any sport except boxing and bull fighting.
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I was dyslexic, so I was put in the silly class at school.
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I have always wanted to live in the present and never the past.
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My father was a tailor, my mother a machinist.
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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 am not responsible for all the journalists in the past that have told lies.
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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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It's only a few nutcases who do art for themselves, like Van Gogh.
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The skull is nature's sculpture.
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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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Being trendy is dangerous. I've never been trendy, which is why I've never really fallen out of favour.
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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.
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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'm not really one for regrets.
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I don't see the point of photographing trees or rocks because they're there and anyone can photograph them if they're prepared to hang around and wait for the light.
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I suppose because my work was so popular people didn't really look at it.
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I'm not a philosopher, I'm just a simple boy from East Ham.
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I guess I'm the last of the Cockneys.
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The only thing they can't teach you at art school is art.
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In a way, a man's body is more beautiful than a woman's.
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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.