Zitat des Tages von David Bailey:
When I die I want to go to Vogue.
A positive attitude can really make dreams come true - it did for me.
The reason I did fashion was it was the only way to get paid to do anything creative. You couldn't support yourself as an 'artist' - I hate that word. The only way you could be 'arty' was as a fashion photographer, because it still had a certain amount of integrity involved.
To get rich, you have to be making money while you're asleep.
It's only a few nutcases who do art for themselves, like Van Gogh.
I've had some weird experiences.
You can't really copy what I do because I don't do anything.
People want security in this insecure world.
Fashion often starts off beautiful and becomes ugly, whereas art starts off ugly sometimes and becomes beautiful.
I used to love the '20s.
Being handsome wasn't much of a burden. It worked for me.
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.
I was ten when I got my first serious beating. It was rough.
The earth has a life of its own.
I won't do advertising if they bring a layout and say, 'This is what we want to do,' because anybody can do that; it's not interesting. They've got digital and the computer; it's not taking pictures, it's not magic - it's a picture done by committee.
Being dyslexic, I was told that I was an idiot all the time.
I always go for simplicity.
The skull is nature's sculpture.
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.
I am mad about my wife.
Nothing wrong with retouching - nothing new about retouching.
My exploits are nothing now to the average person.
I'm not really one for regrets.
I never cared for fashion much, amusing little seams and witty little pleats: it was the girls I liked.
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.
I've been used by women all my life, fortunately.
It always amazes me when people ask you to do something and then tell you how to do it.
I just thought it was magic that you could stick a bit of paper in some coffee-type liquid and a picture comes out.
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.
If you're curious, London's an amazing place.
The only thing approaching art in a movie is the script.
I was dyslexic, so I was put in the silly class at school.
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 sexual intercourse.
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.
I love learning new techniques.
I am not responsible for all the journalists in the past that have told lies.