“ 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 se… David Bailey
“ I'm not mad about movies, there are too many people involved in the making of them, and they lack a definitive creative focus. 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… David Bailey
“ When I stop working, I go out and start working again. Most people paint a picture, or whatever they do, and go home. For me, it has to be continuous. David Bailey
“ 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. 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 s… David Bailey
“ 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
“ The trouble with people like Tony Blair is they get confused, they think intelligence is education when they're two different things. David Bailey
“ 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
