Quotes by 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 ordinary.”

“A positive attitude can really make dreams come true - it did for me.”

“Rockers are the nicest people to photograph. They have no inhibitions.”

“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.”

“My fashion pictures are documents just as much as my boat people or my pictures for Band-Aid of Sudan.”

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

“When I die I want to go to Vogue.”

“This is going to be a good place for kids like him to learn the ropes. And theres going to be a lot of them out here.”

“People keep trying to wring more uses out of the old form factors, the old PCs. Im somewhat skeptical about their ability to really drive into new markets at this point, ... A lot of these ideas have been around for a long time. IBM had a tablet PC, the Word Pad, out several years ago with limited success, and a lot of people are working on better ways of connecting businesses and consumers to business. I think theyve demonstrated some really strong uses, but theyre more evolutionary than revolutionary, at this point.”

“Compaq is making incremental steps to improve its business line. But they really have several hurdles going forward.”

I hate being so nostalgic about the Sixties.

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

The skull is natures sculpture.

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.

The trouble with people like Tony Blair is they get confused, they think intelligence is education when theyre two different things.

The best advice I ever got was that knowledge is power and to keep reading.

If youre curious, Londons an amazing place.

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

I left school on my 15th birthday.

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.