David Bailey Quotes

People want security in this insecure world.

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

I don't like any sport except boxing and bull fighting.

I'm not really one for regrets.

Being dyslexic, I was told that I was an idiot all the time.

In '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.

Girls are more attractive to me than dresses.

I never set out to be a photographer.

You can't really copy what I do because I don't do anything.

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.

My first influence obviously was Picasso.

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.

I don't think global warming is to do with us, I think it's a natural circle. I don't think a few Ferraris make that much difference.

I don't feel very optimistic in London.

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.

The trouble with people like Tony Blair is they get confused, they think intelligence is education when they're two different things.

I know everything should be photographed. It helps me make sense of my existence.

Being trendy is dangerous. I've never been trendy, which is why I've never really fallen out of favour.