Quotes from David Bailey

I have never met an ugly woman.

I hate men who are in touch with their feminine side.

I've been used by women all my life, fortunately.

I had a terrible time with feminists in the Seventies. They hated me, those women. I think they hated everything.

It's not about composition. It's the way you feel about how your objects should relate to each other. I've got lots of African statues and things, and the cleaner arranges them like soldiers, which drives me mad. So I have to rearrange them, and I must drive her mad, because I'm doing anarchy and she's doing military manoeuvres.

Nothing wrong with retouching - nothing new about retouching.

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 just thought it was magic that you could stick a bit of paper in some coffee-type liquid and a picture comes out.

If something becomes old-fashioned, it was no good to start with. Think about it. Michelangelo is not old-fashioned.

Rather than knowing more, I think I've got more open-minded.

I don't feel very optimistic in London.

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.

I hate being so nostalgic about the Sixties.

A positive attitude can really make dreams come true - it did for me.  

A positive attitude can really make dreams come true - it did for me.

The best advice I ever got was that knowledge is power and to keep reading...

You adapt to who you're photographing.

It always amazes me when people ask you to do something and then tell you how to do it.

Sometimes I still can't believe my luck.

I am mad about my wife.

The trouble with people like Tony Blair is they get confused, they think intelligence is education when they're two different things.