David Bailey

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I'm not mad about movies, there are too many people involved in the making of them, and they lack a definitive creative focus.

A positive attitude can really make dreams come true - it did for me.

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

I like change. There's something Buddhist about it - continuous change is wonderful.

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

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.

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

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

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 left school on my 15th birthday.

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.

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

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.

Fashion often starts off beautiful and becomes ugly, whereas art starts off ugly sometimes and becomes beautiful.