"The reason I did fashion was it was the only way to get paid to do anything creative. You couldn't support yourself as an 'artist' - I hate that word. The only way you could be 'arty' was as a fashion photographer, because it still had a certain amount of integrity involved."

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Source : "Question time: David Bailey" by Hannah Pool, www.theguardian.com. September 2, 2009.

David Bailey

#Fashion Quotes #Hate Quotes #Integrity Quotes

“I'm not out here on the front lines trying to create clones, or consumers, or worshippers of who I am, and what I do. I'm trying to nurture the idea that you should do your own thing, which is really powerful.”
“To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts.”
“I hope we're all ready to leave the phenomenal world, and enter into the sublime?”
“Is the Master out of his mind?' she asked me. I nodded. 'And he's taking you with him?' I nodded again. 'Where?' she asked. I pointed towards the centre of the earth. 'Into the cellar?' exclaimed the old servant. 'No,' I said, 'farther down than that.”
“That was my childhood. I grew up with the monks, studying Sanskrit and meditating for hours in the morning and hours in the evening, and going once a day to beg for food.”
“The learned person who only talks will never Penetrate to the inner heart of humans.”
“My former wife made me a millionaire. I used to have three million dollars.”
“I feel that gay people not being able to get married for generations, forever, meant that we came up with alternative ways of recognizing relationships. And I worry that if everybody has access to the same institutions that we lose the creativity of subcultures having to make it on their own. And I like gay culture.”

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