David Bailey
Photographer
1938-01-02
Quotes by David Bailey
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If you're curious, London's an amazing place.
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I didn't know a time when there wasn't a war because I spent all my time from the age of two or three to eight in a coal cellar really.
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I think about death all the time. I know there's nothing out there, but I'm curious. There's a 300 billion-to-one chance that there might be an energy that goes somewhere else, but I doubt it.
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It's not about composition. It's the way you feel about how your objects should relate to each other. I've got lots of African statues and things, and the cleaner arranges them like soldiers, which drives me mad. So I have to rearrange them, and I must drive her mad, because I'm doing anarchy and she's doing military manoeuvres.
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I was surrounded by strong women so it had never even occurred to me that women were anything other than equal to men.
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My father was a tailor, my mother a machinist.
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The trouble with people like Tony Blair is they get confused, they think intelligence is education when they're two different things.
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Being trendy is dangerous. I've never been trendy, which is why I've never really fallen out of favour.
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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.
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It's only a few nutcases who do art for themselves, like Van Gogh.
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John Parsons, the gay art director at 'Vogue,' really started my career.
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When I die I want to go to Vogue.
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I never cared for fashion much, amusing little seams and witty little pleats: it was the girls I liked.
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