Quotes by 'David Bailey'

David Bailey

David Royston Bailey, CBEis an English fashion and portrait photographer...

good

If something becomes old-fashioned, it was no good to start with. Think about it. Michelangelo is not old-fashioned.

I've always tried to do pictures that don't date.

definitive involved lack mad movies people

I'm not mad about movies, there are too many people involved in the making of them, and they lack a definitive creative focus.

people work

I suppose because my work was so popular people didn't really look at it.

love people privilege time

I love people for giving me their time. It's a privilege - I make the most of it.

I guess I'm the last of the Cockneys.

I don't think it matters where I came from any more.

bit love term

I don't really like the term 'artist.' I'm not sure what it means. It's a bit like 'love.'

time

I could develop a picture by the time I was 12.

Everyone gets old - there's nothing you can do about it.

lets loves man

Every man who is high up loves to think that he has done it all himself; and the wife smiles, and lets it go at that.

wrong

Nothing wrong with retouching - nothing new about retouching.

art director gay john

John Parsons, the gay art director at 'Vogue,' really started my career.

east

I'm not a philosopher, I'm just a simple boy from East Ham.