I never set out to be a photographer.
— David Bailey
I never cared for fashion much, amusing little seams and witty little pleats: it was the girls I liked.
When I die I want to go to Vogue.
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.
I have always wanted to live in the present and never the past.
People want security in this insecure world.
Rockers are the nicest people to photograph. They have no inhibitions.
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 hate being so nostalgic about the Sixties.
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.
A positive attitude can really make dreams come true - it did for me.
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.
