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.

— David Bailey

Anybody can be a great photographer if they zoom in enough on what they love.

— David Bailey

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

— David Bailey

If you're curious, London's an amazing place.

— David Bailey

I hate being so nostalgic about the Sixties.

— David Bailey

I left school on my 15th birthday.

— David Bailey

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.

— David Bailey

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.

— David Bailey

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

— David Bailey

The skull is nature's sculpture.

— David Bailey