David Bailey Quotes

• Fortunately I didn’t get educated because if I’d got educated I’d be an educated fool now.

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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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• Everyone gets old – there’s nothing you can do about 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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• Being trendy is dangerous. I’ve never been trendy, which is why I’ve never really fallen out of favour.

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• Being handsome wasn’t much of a burden. It worked for me.

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• Being dyslexic, I was told that I was an idiot all the time.

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• Anybody can be a great photographer if they zoom in enough on what they love.

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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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• 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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• The best advice I ever got was that knowledge is power and to keep reading.

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• I left school on my 15th birthday.

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• Girls are more attractive to me than dresses.

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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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• To get rich, you have to be making money while you’re asleep.

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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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• It takes a lot of imagination to be a good photographer. You need less imagination to be a painter because you can invent things. But in photography everything is so ordinary; it takes a lot of looking before you learn to see the extraordinary.

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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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• When I die I want to go to Vogue.

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• Rockers are the nicest people to photograph. They have no inhibitions.

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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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