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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.”
-- David Bailey

#Photography #Imagination #Ordinary
“I never cared for fashion much, amusing little seams and witty little pleats: it was the girls I liked.”
-- David Bailey

#Girl #Witty #Fashion
“A positive attitude can really make dreams come true - it did for me.”
-- David Bailey

#Inspirational #Positive #Dream
“To get rich, you have to be making money while you're asleep.”
-- David Bailey

#Money #Making Money #Rich
“I never tried to revolutionise photography; I just do what I do and keep my fingers crossed that people will like it.”
-- David Bailey

#Photography #People #Fingers Crossed
“The best advice I ever got was that knowledge is power and to keep reading.”
-- David Bailey

#Reading #Advice #Knowledge Is Power
“Rockers are the nicest people to photograph. They have no inhibitions.”
-- David Bailey

#Photography #People #Rockers
“Fashion often starts off beautiful and becomes ugly, whereas art starts off ugly sometimes and becomes beautiful.”
-- David Bailey

#Beautiful #Fashion #Art
“I hate men who are in touch with their feminine side.”
-- David Bailey

#Hate #Men #Sides
“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.”
-- David Bailey

#Fashion #Hate #Integrity
“Anybody can be a great photographer if they zoom in enough on what they love.”
-- David Bailey

#Zoom #Photographer #Enough
“The only thing approaching art in a movie is the script.”
-- David Bailey

#Art #Scripts
“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

#Children #Father #Chess
“I'm not really one for regrets.”
-- David Bailey

#Regret
“Rather than knowing more, I think I've got more open-minded.”
-- David Bailey

#Thinking #Knowing #Open Minded
“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.”
-- David Bailey

#Real #Cities #Office
“Being trendy is dangerous. I've never been trendy, which is why I've never really fallen out of favour.”
-- David Bailey

#Favour #Trendy #Dangerous
“I am not responsible for all the journalists in the past that have told lies.”
-- David Bailey

#Lying #Past #Responsible
“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.”
-- David Bailey

#War #Eight #Two
“The Sixties was a time of breaking down class barriers, although I think class still exists today in some areas.”
-- David Bailey

#Thinking #Class #Today
“The only thing they can't teach you at art school is art.”
-- David Bailey

#Art #School #Teach
“The skull is nature's sculpture.”
-- David Bailey

#Skulls #Sculpture
“I didn't know I was going to live for 50 years. It has come as a shock.”
-- David Bailey

#Years #Shock
“I left school on my 15th birthday.”
-- David Bailey

#Birthday #School
“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

#Thinking #People #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

#Drinking #Exercise #Body
“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

#Strong Women #Strong #Men
“People want security in this insecure world.”
-- David Bailey

#Insecure #People #World
“Being handsome wasn't much of a burden. It worked for me.”
-- David Bailey

#Handsome #Burden
“I always go for simplicity.”
-- David Bailey

#Simplicity

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