David Bailey Quotes

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David Bailey

Profession : Photographer

Birth : January 2, 1938

I hate being so nostalgic about the Sixties.

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You can't really copy what I do because I don't do anything.

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Actors are hard to photograph because they never want to reveal who they are. You don't know if you're getting a character from a Chekhov play or a Polanski film. It depends what mood they're in.

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Kate Moss is the best thing since Jean Shrimpton, really.

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My paintings are rubbish.

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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.

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I don't think global warming is to do with us, I think it's a natural circle. I don't think a few Ferraris make that much difference.

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

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I always go for simplicity.

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If you're curious, London's an amazing place.

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I never tried to revolutionise photography; I just do what I do and keep my fingers crossed that people will like it.

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I've always been a bit flip.

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The Sixties was a time of breaking down class barriers, although I think class still exists today in some areas.

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Anybody can be a great photographer if they zoom in enough on what they love.

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My first influence obviously was Picasso.

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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.

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

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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.

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I never cared for fashion much, amusing little seams and witty little pleats: it was the girls I liked.

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I have always wanted to live in the present and never the past.

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