David Royston Bailey, CBE (born 2 January 1938) is an English fashion and portrait photographer. Read full biography of David Bailey →
I did painting before I did photography.
I didn't know a time when there wasn't a war because I spent all my time from the age of two or three to eight in a coal cellar really.
I didn't know I was going to live for 50 years. It has come as a shock.
I don't do proud.
I don't really like the term 'artist.' I'm not sure what it means. It's a bit like 'love.'
I don't think it matters where I came from any more.
I guess I'm the last of the Cockneys.
I had a terrible time with feminists in the Seventies. They hated me, those women. I think they hated everything.
I hate men who are in touch with their feminine side.
I have always wanted to live in the present and never the past.
I suppose because my work was so popular people didn't really look at it.
I used to love the '20s.
I'm an image-maker.