David Bailey Quotes

I can look at a photo and the dimensions of any piece and tell you if it's going to sit well with the four other pieces in your room.

The design of a dress, furniture, a house, a room, a street and a city are all the same process.

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.

Each script has its own calligraphic and cultural history. It is more a question of matching different calligraphic styles to one another, without the features of one script dominating another.

Paint is the skin of a painting: it is fiction. In houses, it disguises the plumbing and wiring and studs and nails.

What good is a wall without framed art? It is like the equivalent of the accessories that you choose to wear to decorate a black dress - precisely the stuff that makes the wall/dress you.

A lot of my stuff just wasn't saleable. I still don't do private or corporate commissions. It becomes like interior design. I don't enjoy it. The process makes me feel physically sick.

To me, design is very personal. I'm not one of those people who is like, 'This is right, this is wrong.' You should do things that you love, not things that magazines tell you to do.

I like talking about my music.

Style is objective, akin to art, so it varies.

I know what my taste is, and I do like my touch on the piano.

I am obsessed with fashion, like my mother, and I am obsessed with art, like my father.

Because of the nature of the profession of architecture, the art of architecture nourishes itself from other disciplines.

Wrestling can be as much or as little as you want it to be. Everyone likes different movies, different music, different colors. They have a right to their opinion, but to say, 'This isn't wrestling,' well, yeah, it is.

Music is not a sport - one is not better than the other. You just like what you like and get inspired.

There's a very important aspect to all my work, now more than ever, which is tying the interior design and architecture with the art.

Unless they excite me, I don't sign a movie.

I only take up roles that really appeal to me, and like to break the rules as an actress.

I like to create a simple space and surround myself with things that I like to look at.

The reason why I'm not a pop star is I would have hated it. I'll stick to being an artist. I'm not trying not to be commercial; I am just doing what I do. I have finely tuned tastes, and that gets prioritized above everything else. That's just how it is.

At the end, we can embrace and love whatever we want of an author's work. But we also can't ignore a writer's express wish just because we don't happen to agree with it.

This may sound corny, but I've always liked to make things that were beautiful.

I'm not an interior decorator; I'm a designer, and that includes the architecture. The package must be strong and controlled, the rooms aligned, and the windows positioned to make sense with the furniture. Fluff it up, and you've got big trouble.

I never thought I was playing black music. I was just playing music, the stuff I liked. I sang blues at parties and things when I was a kid.

Honestly, I don't try to guess at what most people want. I don't think I'd guess right, and I just think that that's not a good recipe for storytelling. I try to write what I like, what I think my friends would like.