David BaileyI don't feel very optimistic in London. ✨ David Bailey's India: the long click goodbye by Amelia Gentleman, www.theguardian.com. October 19, 2012.352Humanity
David BaileyTo get rich, you have to be making money while you're asleep.352Death
David BaileyI've been used by women all my life, fortunately. ✨ Question time: David Bailey by Hannah Pool, www.theguardian.com. September 2, 2009.331LifeTime
David BaileyI had a terrible time with feminists in the Seventies. They hated me, those women. I think they hated everything.342ThoughtTime
David BaileyBeing dyslexic, I was told that I was an idiot all the time.342Time
David BaileyI was surrounded by strong women so it had never even occurred to me that women were anything other than equal to men.375Time
David BaileyThe only thing they can't teach you at art school is art.355Life
David BaileyMy paintings are rubbish.377Sadness
David BaileyI left school on my 15th birthday. ✨ David Bailey: Reg Kray said: 'Ere, Da'. I wish I could have done it legit like you'. Interview with Fiona Maddocks, www.t… ▶377Humanity
David BaileyIf you're curious, London's an amazing place. ✨ The Scene Interview, edition.cnn.com. November 3, 2006.281Life
David BaileyI 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.281Time
David BaileySometimes I still can't believe my luck.369Time
David BaileyAnybody can be a great photographer if they zoom in enough on what they love. ✨ The old Bailey by Simon Hattenstone, www.theguardian.com. July 29, 2002.358Love
David BaileyI don't think my work does reflect my nationality - I don't like the idea of nationalism.304ReflectionThought
David BaileyYou can't really copy what I do because I don't do anything. ✨ Di wasn't a great beauty by Lynn Barber, www.theguardian.com. November 20, 2005.295Time
David BaileyI'm never shocked, I'm not the shockable type!262Truth
David BaileyRather than knowing more, I think I've got more open-minded.262Thought
David BaileyIn '73 I photographed the cannibals in New Guinea. They treated me OK but they didn't make you feel relaxed... I managed to escape unscathed though, I'm pretty good at that.263Death
David BaileyIn France they don't think I'm difficult.241Thought
David BaileyRockers are the nicest people to photograph. They have no inhibitions.296Humanity
David BaileyPeople want security in this insecure world.263Humanity
David BaileyA positive attitude can really make dreams come true - it did for me.252Truth
David BaileyThe only thing approaching art in a movie is the script.231Hope
David BaileyYou adapt to who you're photographing.3110Sadness
David BaileyThe trouble with people like Tony Blair is they get confused, they think intelligence is education when they're two different things.243HumanityThought
David BaileyThe Sixties was a time of breaking down class barriers, although I think class still exists today in some areas.287ThoughtTime
David BaileyI hate being so nostalgic about the Sixties.221Truth
David BaileyI'm not really one for regrets.232Thought
David BaileyFashion often starts off beautiful and becomes ugly, whereas art starts off ugly sometimes and becomes beautiful. ✨ Di wasn't a great beauty. Interview with Lynn Barber… ▶277Time
David BaileyThe best advice I ever got was that knowledge is power and to keep reading. ✨ This Much I Know: David Bailey. Interview with Alice Fisher, www.theguardian.com. February 20, … ▶288PoliticsReading
