David Bailey
David Bailey
David Royston Bailey, CBEis an English fashion and portrait photographer...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionPhotographer
Date of Birth2 January 1938
fall love men sort women
I sort of fall in love with them when I'm photographing them - men and women.
belongs came century half second thinks
The first half of the 20th century belongs to Picasso, and the second half is about photography. They said digital would kill photography because everyone can do it, but they said that about the box brownie in 1885 when it came out. It makes photography interesting because everyone thinks they can take a picture.
african anarchy cleaner drives lots objects rearrange relate statues
It's not about composition. It's the way you feel about how your objects should relate to each other. I've got lots of African statues and things, and the cleaner arranges them like soldiers, which drives me mad. So I have to rearrange them, and I must drive her mad, because I'm doing anarchy and she's doing military manoeuvres.
eight good heads instead seven
Botticelli would have made a very good fashion photographer. He did eight heads instead of seven heads in a body, which is fashion illustration.
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.
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.
five great six somebody understood wives
All my ex-girlfriends or wives are all kind of great friends and I've never understood somebody who can live with somebody for five or six years and then not like them.
life
The earth has a life of its own.
My father was a tailor, my mother a machinist.
My exploits are nothing now to the average person.