David Bailey Quotes

• I hate men who are in touch with their feminine side.

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• I hate being so nostalgic about the Sixties.

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• I had a terrible time with feminists in the Seventies. They hated me, those women. I think they hated everything.

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• I guess I’m the last of the Cockneys.

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• I don’t think my work does reflect my nationality – I don’t like the idea of nationalism.

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• I don’t think it matters where I came from any more.

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• I don’t think global warming is to do with us, I think it’s a natural circle. I don’t think a few Ferraris make that much difference.

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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 don’t like any sport except boxing and bull fighting.

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• I don’t feel very optimistic in London.

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• I didn’t try and do fashion pictures. I tried to do portraits of girls wearing dresses.

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• I don’t do proud.

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• I didn’t know I was going to live for 50 years. It has come as a shock.

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• I didn’t know a time when there wasn’t a war because I spent all my time from the age of two or three to eight in a coal cellar really.

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• I did painting before I did photography.

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• I could develop a picture by the time I was 12.

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• I am not responsible for all the journalists in the past that have told lies.

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• I am mad about my wife.

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• I always look at people and think how I would cast them.

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• I always go for simplicity.

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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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