David Bailey Quotes

People take pictures of the Summer, just in case someone thought they had missed it, and to proved that it really existed.

My life is real.

I seem to be always returning to photography in my poetry. I guess you could say that I'm documenting the personal history and relationship I have with photography.

Our pictures are our footprints. It’s the best way to tell people we were here.

Often people ask what I'm photographing, which is a hard question to answer. And the best what I've come up with is I just say: Life today.

I went into photography because it seemed like the perfect vehicle for commenting on the madness of today's existence.

All men should strive to learn before they die, what they are running from, and to, and why.

Unfortunately, I'm not one of those people who take pictures, you know, carry a camera. Because if I did I'd have stack's and stack's and stack's of different act's. I got a lot here - I know what I done.

Your photography is a record of your living, for anyone who really sees.

Often as a poet I find that I am somewhat outside an experience I want to hold onto, consciously taking mental notes or writing them down in my journal - for fear that I will forget. It's not unlike being on a trip and taking pictures, your face behind a camera the whole time - the entire experience mediated by a lens.

The business of living - that's your artwork, and the process of that is finding out who you are, what it all means.

Essentially what photography is is life lit up.

In this universe, and this existence, where we live with this duality of whether we exist or not and who are we, the stories we tell ourselves are the stories that define the potentialities of our existence. We are the stories we tell ourselves.

Well, I think the main message is there is more to your story. There is more than what happens between the crib and the grave, and that is what I am really trying to speak to, this idea that all of life is this life and that there is nothing more than what we see and experience right here on this earth.

We tell ourselves stories in order to live.

I confess it, I love the camera. When it's not on me, I'm not quite alive.

In school I was in the dark room all the time, and I've always collected stray photographs; there's a great deal of memory in them.

Imagine there wasn't photography. Where would we be? How would I remember what I looked like as a kid? It links us all. It keeps us all together; it's what our history is.

We're all reflections of the lives we lead.

How strange it is to be anything at all.

Photography is nothing-it's life that interests me.

There are so many moments to remember and sometimes I think that maybe we're not really people at all. Maybe moments are what we are.... Sometimes I just survive. But sometimes I stand on the rooftop of my existence, arms stretched out, begging for more.

Photography is a form of time travel.

The camera is the eye of history.

A photograph is just a little, teeny-weeny, small piece of life. I feel like I see so much more than what I can actually get.