David Bailey Quotes

• It’s funny: you hate authority and then your photography takes on an authority.

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• I grew up scared of Hitler. I wanted to kill him because he spent all my childhood trying to kill me.

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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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• You have to kind of be invisible when you photograph children, so you use a longer lens.

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• You can’t really copy what I do because I don’t do anything.

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• You adapt to who you’re photographing.

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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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• The trouble with people like Tony Blair is they get confused, they think intelligence is education when they’re two different things.

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• The skull is nature’s sculpture.

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• The Sixties was a time of breaking down class barriers, although I think class still exists today in some areas.

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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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• The only thing they can’t teach you at art school is art.

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• The only thing approaching art in a movie is the script.

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• The earth has a life of its own.

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• Sometimes I still can’t believe my luck.

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• Rather than knowing more, I think I’ve got more open-minded.

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• Photography is more about money now but then so are most things.

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• Nothing wrong with retouching – nothing new about retouching.

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• My paintings are rubbish.

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• My friends are all megalomaniacs – from Damien Hirst to Jack Nicholson – all of them.

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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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