Quotes from David Bailey

I don't think it matters where I came from any more.

When I stop working, I go out and start working again. Most people paint a picture, or whatever they do, and go home. For me, it has to be continuous.

My paintings are rubbish.

When I die I want to go to Vogue.

John Parsons, the gay art director at 'Vogue,' really started my career.

I'm never shocked, I'm not the shockable type!

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.

I left school on my 15th birthday.

In New York, everyone's desperate for success, desperate for money and desperate to be accepted, but in London they're more laid back about things like that.

I'm not mad about movies, there are too many people involved in the making of them, and they lack a definitive creative focus.

The skull is nature's sculpture.

All pictures are unnatural. All pictures are sad because they're about dead people. Paintings you don't think of in a special time or with a specific event. With photos I always think I'm looking at something dead.

I like change. There's something Buddhist about it - continuous change is wonderful.

To get rich, you have to be making money while you're asleep.

When I stop working, I go out and start working again. Most people paint a picture, or whatever they do, and go home. For me, it has to be continuous.

Photography is more about money now but then so are most things.

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.

I love learning new techniques.

London changes because of money. It's real estate. If they can build some offices or expensive apartments they will, it's money that changes everything in a city.

I left school on my 15th birthday.

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 was surrounded by strong women so it had never even occurred to me that women were anything other than equal to men.

Fashion often starts off beautiful and becomes ugly, whereas art starts off ugly sometimes and becomes beautiful.

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.