David Bailey Quotes
- You can't really copy what I do because I don't do anything.
- You have to kind of be invisible when you photograph children, so you use a longer lens.
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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'…
- It always amazes me when people ask you to do something and then tell you how to do it.
- Good shoes are important. I wear English brogues in a wide fitting. They last me years.
- If something becomes old-fashioned, it was no good to start with. Think about it. Michelangelo is not old-fashioned.
- Kate Moss is the best thing since Jean Shrimpton, really.
- Botticelli would have made a very good fashion photographer. He did eight heads instead of seven heads in a body, which is fashion illustration.
- The first half of the 20th century belongs to Picasso, and the second half is about photography. They said digital would kill photography because everyone…
- 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…
- I have always wanted to live in the present and never the past.
- I could develop a picture by the time I was 12.
- My exploits are nothing now to the average person.
- I just thought it was magic that you could stick a bit of paper in some coffee-type liquid and a picture comes out.
- I am mad about my wife.
- I did painting before I did photography.
- Photography is more about money now but then so are most things.