- Change theme
Quotes by David Bailey
- 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.
- I left school on my 15th birthday.
- I like change. There's something Buddhist about it - continuous change is wonderful.
- I love learning new techniques.
- I was surrounded by strong women so it had never even occurred to me that women were anything other than equal to men.
- I'm not mad about movies, there are too many people involved in the making of them, and they lack a definitive creative focus.
- If you're curious, London's an amazing place.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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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