The best advice I ever got was that knowledge is power and to keep reading. – David Bailey
I didnt know a time when there wasnt a war because I spent all my time from the age of two or three to eight in a coal cellar really. – David Bailey
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. – David Bailey
Part of what I loved – and love – about being around older people is the tangible sense of history they embody. Im interested in military history, for instance, because both my grandfathers fought in World War II. Im interested in writing because one of those grandfathers wrote books. – Jon Meacham