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 ordinary. David Bailey
I never cared for fashion much, amusing little seams and witty little pleats: it was the girls I liked. David Bailey
My fashion pictures are documents just as much as my boat people or my pictures for Band-Aid of Sudan. David Bailey
A positive attitude can really make dreams come true – it did for me. David Bailey
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. David Bailey
I like people with their own beauty. David Bailey
All that Swinging Sixties nonsense, we all thought it was passé at the time. David Bailey