Top 112 Quotes by David Bailey

I never set out to be a photographer.

I don't feel very optimistic in London.

Botticelli would have made a very good fashion photographer. He did eight heads instead of seven heads in a body, which is fashion illustration.

I didn't try and do fashion pictures. I tried to do portraits of girls wearing dresses.

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

Kate Moss is the best thing since Jean Shrimpton, really.

Being dyslexic, I was told that I was an idiot all the time.

I didn't know I was going to live for 50 years. It has come as a shock.

I always look at people and think how I would cast them.

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.