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The skull is nature's sculpture.

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David Bailey
Age: 86
Born: 1938
Born: January 2
Fashion Photographer
Film Director
Photographer
David Royston Bailey
Skull
Skulls
Sculpture
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Rockers are the nicest people to photograph. They have no inhibitions.
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Being dyslexic, I was told that I was an idiot all the time.
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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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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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My first influence obviously was Picasso.
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The only thing they can't teach you at art school is art.
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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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I was dyslexic, so I was put in the silly class at school.
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I don't see the point of photographing trees or rocks because they're there and anyone can photograph them if they're prepared to hang around and wait for the light.
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I'm never shocked, I'm not the shockable type!
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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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Journalists never make it clear when you are joking.
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I'm not really one for regrets.
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I always go for simplicity.
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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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I don't think my work does reflect my nationality - I don't like the idea of nationalism.
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My friends are all megalomaniacs - from Damien Hirst to Jack Nicholson - all of them.
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Actors are hard to photograph because they never want to reveal who they are. You don't know if you're getting a character from a Chekhov play or a Polanski film. It depends what mood they're in.
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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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People want security in this insecure world.
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