David Bailey Quotes & Sayings (Page 11)

“In France they don't think I'm difficult.”

“Journalists never make it clear when you are joking.”

“My father was a tailor, my mother a machinist.”

“My first influence obviously was Picasso.”

“My friends are all megalomaniacs - from Damien Hirst to Jack Nicholson - all of them.”

“Nothing wrong with retouching - nothing new about retouching.”

“The earth has a life of its own.”

“You have to kind of be invisible when you photograph children, so you use a longer lens.”

“I think about death all the time. I know there's nothing out there, but I'm curious. There's a 300 billion-to-one chance that there might be an energy that goes somewhere else, but I doubt it.”

“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.”