David Bailey

Photographer

United Kingdom

1965 - Present

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To get rich, you have to be making money while you're asleep.
David Bailey
London changes because of money. It's real estate. If they can build some offices or expensive apartments they will, it's money that changes everything in a city.
David Bailey
I have always wanted to live in the present and never the past.
David Bailey
Botticelli would have made a very good fashion photographer. He did eight heads instead of seven heads in a body, which is fashion illustration.
David Bailey
There's nothing wrong with being a fashion photographer, but it's a bit limited.
David Bailey
I don't do proud.
David Bailey
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.
David Bailey
Nothing wrong with retouching - nothing new about retouching.
David Bailey
Instead of putting someone in prison for being a hooligan, give him a choice. He may have beaten someone up and he's got eight years, but tell him you can do eight years inside or spend five years in the Army. Put him in the Parachute Regiment, they'd soon sort him out.
David Bailey
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.
David Bailey