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All Quotes by author - David Bailey

" 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. "

" All I could do at school was paint and draw and that was the only time I ever passed any exam. It was the only thing I ever got right at school. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Anybody can be a great photographer if they zoom in enough on what they love. "

" A positive attitude can really make dreams come true - it did for me. "

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

" Being handsome wasn't much of a burden. It worked for me. "

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

" Botticelli would have made a very good fashion photographer. He did eight heads instead of seven heads in a body, which is fashion illustration. "

" Every man who is high up loves to think that he has done it all himself; and the wife smiles, and lets it go at that. "

" Everyone gets old - there's nothing you can do about it. "

" Fashion often starts off beautiful and becomes ugly, whereas art starts off ugly sometimes and becomes beautiful. "

" Fortunately I didn't get educated because if I'd got educated I'd be an educated fool now. "

" Girls are more attractive to me than dresses. "

" Good shoes are important. I wear English brogues in a wide fitting. They last me years. "

" I always go for simplicity. "

" I always look at people and think how I would cast them. "

" I am mad about my wife. "

" I am not responsible for all the journalists in the past that have told lies. "

" I could develop a picture by the time I was 12. "

" 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. "

" I didn't know I was going to live for 50 years. It has come as a shock. "

" I didn't try and do fashion pictures. I tried to do portraits of girls wearing dresses. "

" I did painting before I did photography. "

" I don't do proud. "

" I don't feel very optimistic in London. "

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

" I don't really like the term 'artist.' I'm not sure what it means. It's a bit like 'love.' "

" I don't see the point of photographing trees or rocks because they're there and anyone can photograph them if they're prepared to hang around and wait for the light. "

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