David Bailey
David Bailey
David Royston Bailey, CBEis an English fashion and portrait photographer...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionPhotographer
Date of Birth2 January 1938
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.
battles half score sort
We did sort of score a touchdown today, but the thing is you know the battles not even half over yet.
actual buildings caught fire fires fireworks four grass none result structure total
We had a total of four structure fires that were of significant size, actual buildings that were caught on fire. And none of those were as the result of fireworks or grass fires.
manly men sexist
If I have any sexist feelings they are aimed at men: I hate manly men.
money
Photography is more about money now but then so are most things.
home paint people whatever
When I stop working, I go out and start working again. Most people paint a picture, or whatever they do, and go home. For me, it has to be continuous.
advertising anybody bring layout picture taking
I won't do advertising if they bring a layout and say, 'This is what we want to do,' because anybody can do that; it's not interesting. They've got digital and the computer; it's not taking pictures, it's not magic - it's a picture done by committee.
chance death doubt energy goes might somewhere time
I think about death all the time. I know there's nothing out there, but I'm curious. There's a 300 billion-to-one chance that there might be an energy that goes somewhere else, but I doubt it.