62 David Bailey Quotes for You to Enjoy

David Bailey

English Photographer

Born: Jan 2, 1938

About Me People Think Time You

Related authors: Annie Leibovitz Ansel Adams Cecil Beaton Diane Arbus Dorothea Lange Gordon Parks Peter Lindbergh Robert Mapplethorpe

I hate men who are in touch with their feminine side. David Bailey

Hate Men Side Touch Feminine Who

I like change. There's something Buddhist about it - continuous change is wonderful. David Bailey

Change Wonderful About Something Buddhist Like Continuous

All my ex-girlfriends or wives are all kind of great friends and I've never understood somebody who can live with somebody for five or six years and then not like them. David Bailey

Great Somebody Live Great Friends Kind Never Like Understood Wives Years Friends Five Six Them Then Who

Instead of putting someone in prison for being a hooligan, give him a choice. He may have beaten someone up and he's got eight years, but tell him you can do eight years inside or spend five years in the Army. Put him in the Parachute Regiment, they'd soon sort him out. David Bailey

You Army Prison Spend Parachute Out Tell Inside Someone Give Beaten He Put Instead Putting Soon Him Sort Got Years Up Five May Being Eight Regiment Choice

I did painting before I did photography. David Bailey

Photography Before Painting Did

Sometimes I still can't believe my luck. David Bailey

Sometimes Luck Believe Still

I suppose because my work was so popular people didn't really look at it. David Bailey

Work People Suppose Look Because Really Popular

I've always been a bit flip. David Bailey

Bit Always Been Flip

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

Love Time Me People Giving Most Make Privilege

You have to kind of be invisible when you photograph children, so you use a longer lens. David Bailey

You Kind Photograph Invisible Longer Children Lens Use

Journalists never make it clear when you are joking. David Bailey

You Joking Never Clear Journalists Make

My paintings are rubbish. David Bailey

Rubbish Paintings

I'm not really one for regrets. David Bailey

Regrets Really

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. David Bailey

Character You Mood Photograph Never Know Because Reveal Chekhov Getting Depends Want Hard Who Film Actor Play

I used to love the '20s. David Bailey

Love To Love Used

My father was a tailor, my mother a machinist. David Bailey

Mother Father Tailor

The only thing approaching art in a movie is the script. David Bailey

Art Approaching Only Movie The Only Thing Script Thing

I don't do proud. David Bailey

Proud

I'm not a philosopher, I'm just a simple boy from East Ham. David Bailey

Simple Philosopher East Boy Ham Just

It's only a few nutcases who do art for themselves, like Van Gogh. David Bailey

Art Few Van Van Gogh Only Like Gogh Themselves Who

It always amazes me when people ask you to do something and then tell you how to do it. David Bailey

Me You People Tell Something Always How Amazes Ask Then

There's nothing wrong with being a fashion photographer, but it's a bit limited. David Bailey

Fashion Nothing Bit Photographer Wrong Limited Being

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