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David Bailey
English
Photographer
Born:
Jan 2
,
1938
About
Me
People
Think
Time
You
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The best advice I ever got was that knowledge is power and to keep reading.
David Bailey
Best
Knowledge
Knowledge Is Power
Power
Advice
Reading
Got
Keep
Ever
The skull is nature's sculpture.
David Bailey
Nature
Sculpture
Skull
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
Good
You
Photography
Invent
Looking
Before
Imagination
Extraordinary
Everything
Photographer
See
Takes
Learn
Because
Lot
Ordinary
Less
Painter
Things
Need
You can't really copy what I do because I don't do anything.
David Bailey
You
Because
Anything
Really
Copy
Being trendy is dangerous. I've never been trendy, which is why I've never really fallen out of favour.
David Bailey
Dangerous
Trendy
Out
Favour
Never
Fallen
Been
Being
Which
Really
Why
Anybody can be a great photographer if they zoom in enough on what they love.
David Bailey
Love
Great
Enough
Photographer
Anybody
I was surrounded by strong women so it had never even occurred to me that women were anything other than equal to men.
David Bailey
Me
Women
Strong
Men
Other
Strong Women
Never
Had
Equal
Occurred
Were
Surrounded
Than
Anything
Even
I won't do advertising if they bring a layout and say, 'This is what we want to do,' because anybody can do that; it's not interesting. They've got digital and the computer; it's not taking pictures, it's not magic - it's a picture done by committee.
David Bailey
Digital
Picture
Say
Magic
Computer
Layout
Taking
Pictures
Advertising
Because
Got
Committee
Done
Anybody
Want
Interesting
Bring
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
Man
Wife
Every
Think
High
He
Smiles
Himself
Go
Up
Done
Loves
Who
Lets
Every Man
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
Nature
Drinking
Matters
Sign
Easing
Sexual
Eating
About
Oneself
Instance
Over
Concern
Exercise
Occupied
Occupy
Dull
Intercourse
Much
Body
Deeply
I hate being so nostalgic about the Sixties.
David Bailey
Hate
About
Sixties
Being
Nostalgic
I could develop a picture by the time I was 12.
David Bailey
Time
Picture
Could
Develop
By The Time
You adapt to who you're photographing.
David Bailey
You
Photographing
Who
Adapt
I've always tried to do pictures that don't date.
David Bailey
Tried
Date
Pictures
Always
My exploits are nothing now to the average person.
David Bailey
Nothing
Person
Average
Exploits
Average Person
Now
I've been used by women all my life, fortunately.
David Bailey
Life
Women
My Life
All My Life
Been
Used
Fortunately
I sort of fall in love with them when I'm photographing them - men and women.
David Bailey
Love
Women
Men
Men And Women
Fall
Photographing
Sort
Them
I guess I'm the last of the Cockneys.
David Bailey
Guess
Last
Being dyslexic, I was told that I was an idiot all the time.
David Bailey
Time
Dyslexic
Idiot
Being
Fortunately I didn't get educated because if I'd got educated I'd be an educated fool now.
David Bailey
Fool
Because
Got
Educated
Get
Fortunately
Now
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.
David Bailey
Success
Money
Desperate
Back
Everyone
London
About
More
New
Like
Accepted
York
New York
Laid
Laid Back
Things
I had a terrible time with feminists in the Seventies. They hated me, those women. I think they hated everything.
David Bailey
Time
Me
Women
Think
Everything
Seventies
Those
Hated
Had
Terrible
Feminists
I never tried to revolutionise photography; I just do what I do and keep my fingers crossed that people will like it.
David Bailey
Photography
People
Will
Tried
Crossed
Fingers
Never
Like
Just
Keep
I was ten when I got my first serious beating. It was rough.
David Bailey
First
Ten
Beating
Got
Rough
Serious
Rather than knowing more, I think I've got more open-minded.
David Bailey
Think
Rather
More
Open-Minded
Knowing
Got
Than
I was a terrible father. The most I ever did for my children was to teach them chess. At least they got that.
David Bailey
Father
Most
Terrible
Got
Least
Chess
Did
Children
Them
Teach
Ever
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