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
Im not mad about movies, there are too many people involved in the making of them, and they lack a definitive creative focus. – 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
I never cared for fashion much, amusing little seams and witty little pleats: it was the girls I liked. – David Bailey
Ah, if he could have plunged up into the clouds, so as to sweep thereon through the undulating heavens over the boundless earth!—ah, if he could have floated with the flower-fragrance over the flowers,—could have streamed with the wind over the summits, through the woods! – Jean Paul Friedrich Richter, Hesperus, or Forty-Five Dog-Post-Days: A Biography,