Quotes by david bailey
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.
A positive attitude can really make dreams come true - it did for me.
My exploits are nothing now to the average person.
I've never been anti-women.
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.
In a way, a man's body is more beautiful than a woman's.
If you're curious, London's an amazing place.
I always look at people and think how I would cast them.
I never set out to be a photographer.
In New York, everyone's desperate for success, desperate for money and desperate to be accepted, but in London they're more laid back about things like that.
I am not responsible for all the journalists in the past that have told lies.
The only thing they can't teach you at art school is art.
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 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.
You have to kind of be invisible when you photograph children, so you use a longer lens.
My friends are all megalomaniacs - from Damien Hirst to Jack Nicholson - all of them.
I hate being so nostalgic about the Sixties.
The earth has a life of its own.
I've always been a bit flip.
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.
