David Bailey Quotes

A positive attitude can really make dreams come true - it did for me.
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.
David Bailey

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.
David Bailey

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

People want security in this insecure world.
David Bailey

Rockers are the nicest people to photograph. They have no inhibitions.
David Bailey

When I die I want to go to Vogue.
David Bailey