David Bailey Fashion Quotations

I didn't try and do fashion pictures. I tried to do portraits of girls wearing dresses.

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.

There's nothing wrong with being a fashion photographer, but it's a bit limited.

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

I never cared for fashion much, amusing little seams and witty little pleats: it was the girls I liked.