David Bailey Quotes

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

I always go for simplicity.

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

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

Everyone gets old - there's nothing you can do about it.

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 that.

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

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

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

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

All my ex-girlfriends or wives are all kind of great friends and I've never understood somebody who can live with somebody for five or six years and then not like them.

All I could do at school was paint and draw and that was the only time I ever passed any exam. It was the only thing I ever got right at school.

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

I left school on my 15th birthday.

Girls are more attractive to me than dresses.

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 play or a Polanski film. It depends what mood they're in.

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

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

When I die I want to go to Vogue.

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

People want security in this insecure world.

It is a sign of a dull nature to occupy oneself deeply in matters that concern the body; for instance, to be over much occupied about exercise, about eating and drinking, about easing oneself, about sexual intercourse.

All pictures are unnatural. All pictures are sad because they're about dead people. Paintings you don't think of in a special time or with a specific event. With photos I always think I'm looking at something dead.

It takes a lot of imagination to be a good photographer. You need less imagination to be a painter because you can invent things. But in photography everything is so ordinary; it takes a lot of looking before you learn to see the extraordinary.

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