David Bailey Quotes

Maybe I'm a dream artist, as they call it.

Except for me, no one in my family could draw.

I consider myself an artist, which is, like, the most played term, but I believe it.

I so much appreciate it when anybody tries to make something and tries to be an artist - I'm happy to see the work.

I love people where, at the end of the day, they'll pick up a paintbrush and paint clouds. They can physically make things.

As long as I can remember, I was drawing or trying to create something.

Very few people possess true artistic ability. It is therefore both unseemly and unproductive to irritate the situation by making an effort. If you have a burning, restless urge to write or paint, simply eat something sweet and the feeling will pass.

I love an art-school girl. I mean... don't we all?

Well, one always has an instinct to be a painter, and I've done quite a lot of painting at one time or another, though not with any public success.

Competitions are for horses, not artists.

A secondhand wardrobe hand clothes doesn't make one an artist. Neither do a hair-trigger temper, melancholic nature, propensity for tears, hating your parents, or HIV. I hate to say it - none of these make one an artist. They can help, but just as being gay doesn't make one witty... the only thing that makes one an artist is making art.

I think a lot of times our culture has an attitude toward art and the production of art that separates artists from the rest of us, like making art or music or painting or whatever is some magical thing that you have to be inspired to do, and special people do it.

I originally just wanted to be an artist.

I just call myself an artist, really.

There's this notion that artists are supposed to be dumb and frivolous. I completely disagree with that.

I paint because I love to paint. If someone buys the prints or whatever, so be it, but it's not my main form of business. As a performer, that is my main form of business.

As to what I would like to be, it is difficult to say. An artist of some kind. If nothing else I shall always study the Arts.

I still consider myself to be an amateur filmmaker. And I say that because in the Latin origin of the word amateur is the word love, and it's love of a form, whereas professional implies something you do for money or for work.

Creating is living doubly. The groping, anxious quest of a Proust, his meticulous collecting of flowers, of wallpapers, and of anxieties, signifies nothing else.

There is nothing so terrible as the pursuit of art by those who have no talent.

I long so much to make beautiful things. But beautiful things require effort and disappointment and perseverance.

Theater doesn't bring money in general. That's not why you do it. If you go into theater for money then you've really gone into the wrong business.

It may sound affected - but it is the act of creation itself, and it is equally exhilarating whether one is working on a teaspoon or a national bank.

The creative part, with the writing of it and the vision, and finding the voice of a show and the characters, is much harder to teach somebody. It's like music. You can either play it or you can't. If you can't play music and you really struggle and work hard, you can learn, but you have to have some inner gift to take it to the next level.

I will be an artist. I am sure I will. [Vincent Van Gogh]