David Bailey
David Bailey
David Royston Bailey, CBEis an English fashion and portrait photographer...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionPhotographer
Date of Birth2 January 1938
beautiful fashion art
Fashion often starts off beautiful and becomes ugly, whereas art starts off ugly sometimes and becomes beautiful.
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.
regret
I'm not really one for regrets.
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.
favour trendy dangerous
Being trendy is dangerous. I've never been trendy, which is why I've never really fallen out of favour.
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.
zoom photographer enough
Anybody can be a great photographer if they zoom in enough on what they love.
reading knowledge-and-power advice
The best advice I ever got was that knowledge is power and to keep reading.
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.
money rich making-money
To get rich, you have to be making money while you're asleep.
inspirational positive dream
A positive attitude can really make dreams come true - it did for me.
girl fashion witty
I never cared for fashion much, amusing little seams and witty little pleats: it was the girls I liked.
photography imagination ordinary
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.