About David Bailey: David Royston Bailey is an English fashion and portrait photographer.
A positive attitude can really make dreams come true - it did for me.
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.
If you're curious, London's an amazing place.
Fashion often starts off beautiful and becomes ugly, whereas art starts off ugly sometimes and becomes beautiful.
It's only a few nutcases who do art for themselves, like Van Gogh.
The only thing they can't teach you at art school is art.
The only thing approaching art in a movie is the script.
John Parsons, the gay art director at 'Vogue,' really started my career.
I left school on my 15th birthday.
The best advice I ever got was that knowledge is power and to keep reading.
Kate Moss is the best thing since Jean Shrimpton, really.
I think about death all the time. I know there's nothing out there, but I'm curious. There's a 300 billion-to-one chance that there might be an energy that goes somewhere else, but I doubt it.
I like change. There's something Buddhist about it - continuous change is wonderful.
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.
The trouble with people like Tony Blair is they get confused, they think intelligence is education when they're two different things.
Anybody can be a great photographer if they zoom in enough on what they love.
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 and then not like them.
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.
Good shoes are important. I wear English brogues in a wide fitting. They last me years.
If something becomes old-fashioned, it was no good to start with. Think about it. Michelangelo is not old-fashioned.
