Quotes by David Bailey

When I stop working, I go out and start working again. Most people paint a picture, or whatever they do, and go home. For me, it has to be continuous.

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.

The trouble with people like Tony Blair is they get confused, they think intelligence is education when they're two different things.

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

I love learning new techniques.

I was surrounded by strong women so it had never even occurred to me that women were anything other than equal to men.

To get rich, you have to be making money while you're asleep.

Photography is more about money now but then so are most things.

In New York, everyone's desperate for success, desperate for money and desperate to be accepted, but in London they're more laid back about things like that.

London changes because of money. It's real estate. If they can build some offices or expensive apartments they will, it's money that changes everything in a city.