David Bailey Quotes

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David Bailey

Profession : Photographer

Birth : January 2, 1938

I never set out to be a photographer.

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You adapt to who you're photographing.

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

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I didn't try and do fashion pictures. I tried to do portraits of girls wearing dresses.

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My exploits are nothing now to the average person.

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The reason I did fashion was it was the only way to get paid to do anything creative. You couldn't support yourself as an 'artist' - I hate that word. The only way you could be 'arty' was as a fashion photographer, because it still had a certain amount of integrity involved.

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I've never been anti-women.

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I've been used by women all my life, fortunately.

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

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All I could do at school was paint and draw and that was the only time I ever passed any exam. It was the only thing I ever got right at school.

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I just thought it was magic that you could stick a bit of paper in some coffee-type liquid and a picture comes out.

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I sort of fall in love with them when I'm photographing them - men and women.

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I was dyslexic, so I was put in the silly class at school.

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I guess I'm the last of the Cockneys.

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Fortunately I didn't get educated because if I'd got educated I'd be an educated fool now.

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My friends are all megalomaniacs - from Damien Hirst to Jack Nicholson - all of them.

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I had a terrible time with feminists in the Seventies. They hated me, those women. I think they hated everything.

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I was ten when I got my first serious beating. It was rough.

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In France they don't think I'm difficult.

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