David Bailey Quotes & Sayings

“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.”

“The best advice I ever got was that knowledge is power and to keep reading.”

“To get rich, you have to be making money while you're asleep.”

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

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

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

“If you're curious, London's an amazing place.”

“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.”

“The skull is nature's sculpture.”

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