David Bailey Quotes

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

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

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

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

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

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

The skull is nature's sculpture.

A positive attitude can really make dreams come true - it did for me.

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

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

I know everything should be photographed. It helps me make sense of my existence.

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

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

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

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

Being trendy is dangerous. I've never been trendy, which is why I've never really fallen out of favour.

I love learning new techniques.

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

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

People want security in this insecure world.

I was ten when I got my first serious beating. It was rough.

I'm not really one for regrets.

I don't feel very optimistic in London.

When I die I want to go to Vogue.

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.

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

I was dyslexic, so I was put in the silly class at school.

I always go for simplicity.

Girls are more attractive to me than dresses.

I've been used by women all my life, fortunately.

I like change. There's something Buddhist about it - continuous change is wonderful.

In France they don't think I'm difficult.

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.

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

London changes because of money. It's real estate. If they can build some offices or expensive apartments they will, it's money that changes everything in a city.

I hate being so nostalgic about the Sixties.

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

If you're curious, London's an amazing place.

I left school on my 15th birthday.

Sometimes I still can't believe my luck.

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

I'm never shocked, I'm not the shockable type!

I don't like any sport except boxing and bull fighting.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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