3 December 2020 David Bailey In New York, everyone’s desperate for success, desperate for money and desperate to be accepted, but in London they’re more laid back about things like that.
3 December 2020 David Bailey Fashion often starts off beautiful and becomes ugly, whereas art starts off ugly sometimes and becomes beautiful.
3 December 2020 David Bailey I didn’t know a time when there wasn’t a war because I spent all my time from the age of two or three to eight in a coal cellar really.
3 December 2020 David Bailey I’m not mad about movies, there are too many people involved in the making of them, and they lack a definitive creative focus.
3 December 2020 David Bailey 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.
3 December 2020 David Bailey 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.
3 December 2020 David Bailey The trouble with people like Tony Blair is they get confused, they think intelligence is education when they’re two different things.
3 December 2020 David Bailey I was surrounded by strong women so it had never even occurred to me that women were anything other than equal to men.
3 December 2020 David Bailey The best advice I ever got was that knowledge is power and to keep reading.
3 December 2020 David Bailey I like change. There’s something Buddhist about it – continuous change is wonderful.
3 December 2020 David Bailey 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.
3 December 2020 David Bailey London changes because of money. It’s real estate. If they can build some offices or expensive apartments they will, it’s money that changes everything in a city.
3 December 2020 David Bailey 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.
