David Royston Bailey, CBE (born 2 January 1938) is an English fashion and portrait photographer. Read full biography of David Bailey →
I love people for giving me their time. It's a privilege - I make the most of it.
I've always tried to do pictures that don't date.
It's only a few nutcases who do art for themselves, like Van Gogh.
The only thing approaching art in a movie is the script.
The only thing they can't teach you at art school is art.
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... →
All my ex-girlfriends or wives are all kind of great friends and I've never understood somebody who can live with somebody for five or six years... →
I won't do advertising if they bring a layout and say, 'This is what we want to do,' because anybody can do that; it's not... →
Fortunately I didn't get educated because if I'd got educated I'd be an educated fool now.
Rather than knowing more, I think I've got more open-minded.
Everyone gets old - there's nothing you can do about it.
I was ten when I got my first serious beating. It was rough.
I was a terrible father. The most I ever did for my children was to teach them chess. At least they got that.