Quotes by David Bailey - Page 2

The best advice I ever got was that knowledge is power and to keep reading.
David Bailey / Photographer
Knowledge
Power
Best
Advice
Knowledge And Power
Reading
Ever
Got
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Anybody can be a great photographer if they zoom in enough on what they love.
David Bailey / Photographer
Great
Enough
Photographer
Zoom
Love Great Enough
Anybody
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I sort of fall in love with them when I'm photographing them - men and women.
David Bailey / Photographer
Men And Women
Love Women Men
Photographing
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I am not responsible for all the journalists in the past that have told lies.
David Bailey / Photographer
Lying
Past
Responsible
In The Past
Journalists
Lies
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There's nothing wrong with being a fashion photographer, but it's a bit limited.
David Bailey / Photographer
Photographer
Bit
Wrong
Limited
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I love people for giving me their time. It's a privilege - I make the most of it.
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Giving
Privilege
Love Time Me
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I know everything should be photographed. It helps me make sense of my existence.
David Bailey / Photographer
Help Me
Helping
Should
Me Know Everything
Helps
Photographed
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I like change. There's something Buddhist about it - continuous change is wonderful.
David Bailey / Photographer
Buddhist
Continuous Change
Wonderful
Continuous
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My friends are all megalomaniacs - from Damien Hirst to Jack Nicholson - all of them.
David Bailey / Photographer
Megalomaniacs
My Friends
Nicholson
Jack
Jack Nicholson
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It always amazes me when people ask you to do something and then tell you how to do it.
David Bailey / Photographer
Always Me People
Amazes
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Good shoes are important. I wear English brogues in a wide fitting. They last me years.
David Bailey / Photographer
Fitting
Wide
English
Wear
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I didn't try and do fashion pictures. I tried to do portraits of girls wearing dresses.
David Bailey / Photographer
Girl
Dresses
Fashion
Portraits
Trying
Wearing
Pictures
Tried
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You have to kind of be invisible when you photograph children, so you use a longer lens.
David Bailey / Photographer
Children
Invisible
Lenses
Photograph
Use
Lens
Longer
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I don't think my work does reflect my nationality - I don't like the idea of nationalism.
David Bailey / Photographer
Doe
Ideas
Nationalism
Thinking
Reflect
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Fortunately I didn't get educated because if I'd got educated I'd be an educated fool now.
David Bailey / Photographer
Educated
Educated Fools
Fool
Fortunately
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I don't really like the term 'artist.' I'm not sure what it means. It's a bit like 'love.'
David Bailey / Photographer
Term
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I never cared for fashion much, amusing little seams and witty little pleats: it was the girls I liked.
David Bailey / Photographer
Girl
Amusing
Fashion
Witty
Cared
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Being trendy is dangerous. I've never been trendy, which is why I've never really fallen out of favour.
David Bailey / Photographer
Dangerous
Fallen
Favour
Trendy
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I was a terrible father. The most I ever did for my children was to teach them chess. At least they got that.
David Bailey / Photographer
Chess
Children
Father
Teach
Terrible
Least
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The Sixties was a time of breaking down class barriers, although I think class still exists today in some areas.
David Bailey / Photographer
Barriers
Class
Thinking
Today
Breaking
Exists
Sixties
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Fashion often starts off beautiful and becomes ugly, whereas art starts off ugly sometimes and becomes beautiful.
David Bailey / Photographer
Art
Beautiful
Fashion
Ugly
Becomes
Whereas
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I had a terrible time with feminists in the Seventies. They hated me, those women. I think they hated everything.
David Bailey / Photographer
Feminist
Hated
Seventies
Terrible Times
Thinking
Time Women Me
Feminists
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I just thought it was magic that you could stick a bit of paper in some coffee-type liquid and a picture comes out.
David Bailey / Photographer
Liquid
Magic
Paper
Stick
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If something becomes old-fashioned, it was no good to start with. Think about it. Michelangelo is not old-fashioned.
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Becomes
Good Something Think
Start
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I never tried to revolutionise photography; I just do what I do and keep my fingers crossed that people will like it.
David Bailey / Photographer
Fingers
Fingers Crossed
People
Photography
People Will Never
Keep People Will
Crossed
Tried
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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 / Photographer
Every Man
Loves
Lets
Smiles
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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 / Photographer
Men
Equal
Strong
Strong Women
Men Women Me
Women Men Me
Occurred
Surrounded
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I'm not mad about movies, there are too many people involved in the making of them, and they lack a definitive creative focus.
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Creative
Focus
Involved
Mad
Definitive
Too Many People
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The trouble with people like Tony Blair is they get confused, they think intelligence is education when they're two different things.
David Bailey / Photographer
Blair
Confused
Different Things
Thinking
Two
Tony
Tony Blair
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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.
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Circles
Differences
Global Warming
Thinking
Circle
Global
Warming
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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.
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War
Coal
Eight
My Time
Two
Time War Age
All My Time
Cellar
War Time Age
Spent
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Botticelli would have made a very good fashion photographer. He did eight heads instead of seven heads in a body, which is fashion illustration.
David Bailey / Photographer
Eight
Photographer
Seven
Heads
Instead
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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 / Photographer
Exam
Only Time
Paint
School
Draw
Passed
The Only Thing
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When I stop working, I go out and start working again. Most people paint a picture, or whatever they do, and go home. For me, it has to be continuous.
David Bailey / Photographer
Paint
Picture
Home Me Picture
Home Me Start
Continuous
Go Home
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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.
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New York
Accepted
Desperate
Laid Back
London
Laid
York
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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.
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Cities
Expensive
London
Office
Real
Build
Apartments
Estate
Offices
Real Estate
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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 wait for the light.
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Light
Photograph
Prepared
Rocks
Tree
Wait
Hang
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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 / Photographer
Five
Six
Understood
Somebody
Great Friends
Wives
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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 though, I'm pretty good at that.
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Cannibal
Feels
Guinea
Relaxed
Good Me Feel
Good Me New
Cannibals
Escape
Photographed
Pretty Good
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I think about death all the time. I know there's nothing out there, but I'm curious. There's a 300 billion-to-one chance that there might be an energy that goes somewhere else, but I doubt it.
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Curious
Somewhere Else
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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 / Photographer
Actors
Character
Chekhov
Depends
Film
Mood
Photograph
Play
Actor
Reveal
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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.
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Sad
People
Special
Thinking
Unnatural
Time Always People
Time Sad Always
Dead
Event
Pictures
Photos
Special Time
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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 / Photographer
Body
Concern
Drinking
Dull
Exercise
Instance
Intercourse
Oneself
Deeply
Easing
Matters
Sexual
Occupied
Sign
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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.
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Art
Learning
Smile
Imagination
Extraordinary
Ordinary
Painter
Photographer
Photography
Looking
Lot
Before
Less
Invent
Learn
Takes
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I won't do advertising if they bring a layout and say, 'This is what we want to do,' because anybody can do that; it's not interesting. They've got digital and the computer; it's not taking pictures, it's not magic - it's a picture done by committee.
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Advertising
Computer
Digital
Interesting
Layout
Magic
Picture
Anybody
Bring
Committee
Taking
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Instead of putting someone in prison for being a hooligan, give him a choice. He may have beaten someone up and he's got eight years, but tell him you can do eight years inside or spend five years in the Army. Put him in the Parachute Regiment, they'd soon sort him out.
David Bailey / Photographer
Army
Beaten
Eight
Five
Prison
Inside
Choice
Spend
Instead
Parachute
Putting
Regiment
Soon
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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' - I hate that word. The only way you could be 'arty' was as a fashion photographer, because it still had a certain amount of integrity involved.
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Amount
Creative
Fashion
Hate
Integrity
Involved
Paid
Photographer
Arty
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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 can do it, but they said that about the box brownie in 1885 when it came out. It makes photography interesting because everyone thinks they can take a picture.
David Bailey / Photographer
Century
Digital
Half
Interesting
Said
Everyone
Box
Belongs
Came
Makes
Picasso
Second
Thinks
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It's not about composition. It's the way you feel about how your objects should relate to each other. I've got lots of African statues and things, and the cleaner arranges them like soldiers, which drives me mad. So I have to rearrange them, and I must drive her mad, because I'm doing anarchy and she's doing military manoeuvres.
David Bailey / Photographer
Anarchy
Composition
Mad
Military
Objects
Relate
Statues
Your Me Feel
African
Lots
Drive
Cleaner
Drives
Rearrange
Soldiers
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