David Bailey Quotes

• My first influence obviously was Picasso.

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• My father was a tailor, my mother a machinist.

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• My exploits are nothing now to the average person.

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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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• Journalists never make it clear when you are joking.

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• It’s only a few nutcases who do art for themselves, like Van Gogh.

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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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• 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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• In France they don’t think I’m difficult.

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• In a way, a man’s body is more beautiful than a woman’s.

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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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• If I have any sexist feelings they are aimed at men: I hate manly men.

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• If you’re curious, London’s an amazing place.

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• I’ve had some weird experiences.

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• I’ve never been anti-women.

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• I’ve always tried to do pictures that don’t date.

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• I’ve been used by women all my life, fortunately.

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• I’ve always been a bit flip.

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• I’m not really one for regrets.

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• I’m not political and I don’t judge.

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David Bailey (103)

Birth:	2nd January, 1938
Nationality:	British
Profession:	Photographer, Writer

About

David Royston Bailey was born in Leytonstone, London, England. He is an English photographer and writer. Bailey developed a love of natural history, and this led him into photography. In 1959, Bailey became a photographic assistant at the John French studio, and in May 1960, he was a photographer for John Cole's Studio Five, before being contracted as a fashion photographer for British Vogue magazine later that year. Since 1966, he has also directed several television commercials and documentaries. He was awarded The Royal Photographic Society's Centenary Medal and Honorary Fellowship in recognition of a sustained, significant contribution to the art of photography in 2005.

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