David Bailey Quotes

I'm getting my respect as a video director. The fashion industry respects me and knows who I am.

I wanted life to be episodic. I wanted to be a magazine photographer and I was willing to do what it took to become that.

Fashion photographers are the new painters.

I wasn't aware it could make me rich or famous. I just wanted to take pictures.

I enjoy collaborating with creative people and trying to get the best image possible to convey a feeling or story. Plus, I get flown all over the world to exotic places. How can you lose interest in that? It's a great lifestyle. I can take vacations whenever I want, and no two shoots are ever the same.

My big dream was to work as a photographer for 'National Geographic.'

I came into the industry at a time when there weren't a lot of choices to what you could do.

It will be great to have a fashion career during and after my DJ career.

If Botticelli were alive today he'd be working for Vogue.

It's really, really hard to make it as a fine-art photographer exclusively.

I just really wanted to do art, except when I was taking those photographs of people I would make the clothes that I would photograph them in so I could control the whole thing.

Photographers have to make the clothes look fantastic; that's why we get paid.

I've learned to create a palette, a vocabulary of ways to take pictures.

I support any procedure that allows photographers to express themselves, whether that involves color, black and white, platinum, palladium and digital technology.

I have had the privilege of working with the best in the business, from photographers to designers to magazines. There's not much more to ask for but I'm still looking forward to one day working with photographers Mert and Marcus, Tim Walker and Nick Knight.

Sometimes there's a sense of closing yourself off on a shoot, and I try not to do that. Sometimes you have to, like when you're in a studio and you're doing fashion shooting, but I don't even do it then.

I've been taking photographs since I was a teenager, and fashion has taught me a lot more about photography. It's definitely inspired me.

Photography to the amateur is recreation, to the professional it is work, and hard work too, no matter how pleasurable it my be.

One of the difficulties of photography is that it is much better at being explicit than at being reticent.

I feel more like a creative artist using photography because there's - the digital work is so interesting now. It's come to that. I have had many different stages of photography - there are many different ways to take photos. But I feel now I'm in that stage of my life where I use the camera, you know, in that way.

I loved fashion, I really did, but I was not obsessed with it. I wanted to be behind the scenes, like in that movie 'Broadcast News.' Holly Hunter - her I wanted to be.

I'm quite interested in doing a film about fashion. As someone with no fashion taste whatsoever, I think it would be good for me.

It is a serious job being a portrait photographer, which is how I saw myself.

Bruce Weber is an amazing photographer, and Carine Roitfeld's style - and everything she does - is gorgeous.

My father thought photography was done by lowlifes.