In New York, everyones desperate for success, desperate for money and desperate to be accepted, but in London theyre more laid back about things like that. – David Bailey
Fashion often starts off beautiful and becomes ugly, whereas art starts off ugly sometimes and becomes beautiful. – 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
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