David Bailey
David Bailey
David Royston Bailey, CBEis an English fashion and portrait photographer...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionPhotographer
Date of Birth2 January 1938
used
I've been used by women all my life, fortunately.
amazing-places london curious
If you're curious, London's an amazing place.
hate i-hate nostalgic
I hate being so nostalgic about the Sixties.
skulls sculpture
The skull is nature's sculpture.
years shock knows
I didn't know I was going to live for 50 years. It has come as a shock.
hate men sides
I hate men who are in touch with their feminine side.
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.
copies
You can't really copy what I do because I don't do anything.
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.
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.