David bailey

My paintings are rubbish.

I don't do proud.

It is a sign of a dull nature to occupy oneself deeply in matters that concern the body; for instance, to be over much occupied about exercise, about eating and drinking, about easing oneself, about...

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 could develop a picture by the time I was 12.

I'm not really one for regrets.

I'm never shocked, I'm not the shockable type!

I always look at people and think how I would cast them.

You have to kind of be invisible when you photograph children, so you use a longer lens.

My first influence obviously was Picasso.