David Bailey Quotes

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

Attitude, Dreams, Positive

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.
David Bailey

Good, Everything, Before

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

Women, Men, Strong

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.
David Bailey

Time, Sad, Special

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.
David Bailey

Nature, Body, Exercise

People want security in this insecure world.
David Bailey

Insecure, Security

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

Photograph, Rockers, Nicest

When I die I want to go to Vogue.
David Bailey

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

Money, Rich, Making

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

Love, Great, Enough

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

Art, Beautiful, Fashion

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

School, Put, Silly

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

Power, Best, Knowledge

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.
David Bailey

Character, Hard, Play

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.
David Bailey

Great, Live, Friends

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

Handsome, Worked, Burden

Girls are more attractive to me than dresses.
David Bailey

Attractive, Dresses

I always go for simplicity.
David Bailey

I left school on my 15th birthday.
David Bailey

Birthday, School, Left

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

Fashion, Liked, Witty

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.
David Bailey

Time, School, Exam

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

Time, Idiot, Dyslexic

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

Why, Dangerous, Fallen

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.
David Bailey

Wife, Done, High

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

Nothing, Old, Everyone

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Photographer

Born: January 2, 1938

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