David Bailey
  • All pictures are unnatural. All pictures are sad because they're about dead people. Paintings you don't think of in a special time or with a specific event. With photos I always think I'm looking at something dead.

  • 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.

  • I didn't know a time when there wasn't a war because I spent all my time from the age of two or three to eight in a coal cellar really.

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