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The only thing they can't teach you at art school is art.
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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I hate being so nostalgic about the Sixties.
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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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Rockers are the nicest people to photograph. They have no inhibitions.
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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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The Sixties was a time of breaking down class barriers, although I think class still exists today in some areas.
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The best advice I ever got was that knowledge is power and to keep reading.
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It's only a few nutcases who do art for themselves, like Van Gogh.
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I never set out to be a photographer.
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Fortunately I didn't get educated because if I'd got educated I'd be an educated fool now.
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You have to kind of be invisible when you photograph children, so you use a longer lens.
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A positive attitude can really make dreams come true - it did for me.
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I never cared for fashion much, amusing little seams and witty little pleats: it was the girls I liked.
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I didn't know I was going to live for 50 years. It has come as a shock.
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Being handsome wasn't much of a burden. It worked for me.
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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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