David Bailey
David Bailey
David Royston Bailey, CBEis an English fashion and portrait photographer...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionPhotographer
Date of Birth2 January 1938
girl fashion witty
I never cared for fashion much, amusing little seams and witty little pleats: it was the girls I liked.
money rich making-money
To get rich, you have to be making money while you're asleep.
photography people fingers-crossed
I never tried to revolutionise photography; I just do what I do and keep my fingers crossed that people will like it.
reading knowledge-and-power advice
The best advice I ever got was that knowledge is power and to keep reading.
zoom photographer enough
Anybody can be a great photographer if they zoom in enough on what they love.
want vogue dies
When I die I want to go to Vogue.
photography people rockers
Rockers are the nicest people to photograph. They have no inhibitions.
regret
I'm not really one for regrets.
thinking people special
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.
drinking exercise body
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.
copies
You can't really copy what I do because I don't do anything.
fashion integrity hate
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.
years shock knows
I didn't know I was going to live for 50 years. It has come as a shock.
skulls sculpture
The skull is nature's sculpture.