David Bailey

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

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.

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.

I left school on my 15th birthday.

Anybody can be a great photographer if they zoom in enough on what they love.

If you're curious, London's an amazing place.

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

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

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 sexual intercourse.

The skull is nature's sculpture.

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

I hate being so nostalgic about the Sixties.