David Bailey

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

— David Bailey

Kate Moss is the best thing since Jean Shrimpton, really.

— David Bailey

I never set out to be a photographer.

— David Bailey

I hate being so nostalgic about the Sixties.

— David Bailey

I guess I'm the last of the Cockneys.

— David Bailey

I did painting before I did photography.

— David Bailey

I have always wanted to live in the present and never the past.

— David Bailey

I'm not a philosopher, I'm just a simple boy from East Ham.

— David Bailey

I'm not mad about movies, there are too many people involved in the making of them, and they lack a definitive creative…

— David Bailey

I never tried to revolutionise photography; I just do what I do and keep my fingers crossed that people will like it.

— David Bailey

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

— David Bailey

I love people for giving me their time. It's a privilege - I make the most of it.

— David Bailey

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

— David Bailey

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

— David Bailey

I was a terrible father. The most I ever did for my children was to teach them chess. At least they got…

— David Bailey

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

— David Bailey

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

— David Bailey

My exploits are nothing now to the average person.

— David Bailey

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

— David Bailey

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

— David Bailey

I suppose because my work was so popular people didn't really look at it.

— David Bailey

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

— David Bailey

If something becomes old-fashioned, it was no good to start with. Think about it. Michelangelo is not old-fashioned.

— David Bailey

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

— David Bailey

I never cared for fashion much, amusing little seams and witty little pleats: it was the girls I liked.

— David Bailey

I don't think my work does reflect my nationality - I don't like the idea of nationalism.

— David Bailey

I was surrounded by strong women so it had never even occurred to me that women were anything other than equal to…

— David Bailey

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

— David Bailey

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

— David Bailey

Fashion often starts off beautiful and becomes ugly, whereas art starts off ugly sometimes and becomes beautiful.

— David Bailey

I didn't know a time when there wasn't a war because I spent all my time from the age of two or…

— David Bailey