About David Bailey: David Royston Bailey is an English fashion and portrait photographer.
My first influence obviously was Picasso.
My friends are all megalomaniacs - from Damien Hirst to Jack Nicholson - all of them.
Nothing wrong with retouching - nothing new about retouching.
You have to kind of be invisible when you photograph children, so you use a longer lens.
My father was a tailor, my mother a machinist.
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 mu...
All I could do at school was paint and draw and that was the only time I ever passed any exam. It was the only thing I ever got right at school.
Being dyslexic, I was told that I was an idiot all the time.
The Sixties was a time of breaking down class barriers, although I think class still exists today in some areas.
I could develop a picture by the time I was 12.
I had a terrible time with feminists in the Seventies. They hated me, those women. I think they hated everything.
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.
To get rich, you have to be making money while you're asleep.
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.
Photography is more about money now but then so are most things.
The skull is nature's sculpture.
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.
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 don't like any sport except boxing and bull fighting.
I was surrounded by strong women so it had never even occurred to me that women were anything other than equal to men.
If I have any sexist feelings they are aimed at men: I hate manly men.
