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Fortunately I didn't get educated because if I'd got educated I'd be an educated fool now.
David Bailey
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David Bailey
Age: 86
Born: 1938
Born: January 2
Fashion Photographer
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David Royston Bailey
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The reason I did fashion was it was the only way to get paid to do anything creative. You couldn't support yourself as an 'artist' - I hate that word. The only way you could be 'arty' was as a fashion photographer, because it still had a certain amount of integrity involved.
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The Sixties was a time of breaking down class barriers, although I think class still exists today in some areas.
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In '73 I photographed the cannibals in New Guinea. They treated me OK but they didn't make you feel relaxed... I managed to escape unscathed though, I'm pretty good at that.
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It's only a few nutcases who do art for themselves, like Van Gogh.
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Girls are more attractive to me than dresses.
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Journalists never make it clear when you are joking.
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My friends are all megalomaniacs - from Damien Hirst to Jack Nicholson - all of them.
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Sometimes I still can't believe my luck.
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I know everything should be photographed. It helps me make sense of my existence.
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I'm never shocked, I'm not the shockable type!
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Rockers are the nicest people to photograph. They have no inhibitions.
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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.
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I had a terrible time with feminists in the Seventies. They hated me, those women. I think they hated everything.
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My first influence obviously was Picasso.
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I didn't try and do fashion pictures. I tried to do portraits of girls wearing dresses.
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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.
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The best advice I ever got was that knowledge is power and to keep reading.
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I've been used by women all my life, fortunately.
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The trouble with people like Tony Blair is they get confused, they think intelligence is education when they're two different things.
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The only thing approaching art in a movie is the script.
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