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
Fashion often starts off beautiful and becomes ugly, whereas art starts off ugly sometimes and becomes beautiful. – David Bailey
I was surrounded by strong women so it had never even occurred to me that women were anything other than equal to men. – David Bailey
All pictures are unnatural. All pictures are sad because theyre about dead people. Paintings you dont think of in a special time or with a specific event. With photos I always think Im looking at something dead. – David Bailey
If Copenhagen were a person, that person would be generous, beautiful, elderly, but with a flair. A human being that has certain propensities for quarrelling, filled with imagination and with appetite for the new and with respect for the old – somebody who takes good care of things and of people. – Connie Nielsen