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Total quotes: 2

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David Bailey

Birthname

AKA: David Bailly

Birthday: January 2, 1938

Birthplace: Leytonstone, London, England

Nationality: Netherlands

Occupations: Painter

Total quotes: 2

“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.”

— David Bailey, David Bailey interview for "The Face" Magazine(1984)

Tagged: Photography, Creativity

“People who use digital are not photographers—they’re more art directors...They decide after a shoot what’s good, where I have to decide what’s good before I do it. Digital photographers take thousands of pictures, and then edit. Give a camera to a chimp and he could take digital pictures.”

— David Bailey, “Kate Moss Doesn’t Need a Palm Tree”—David Bailey Opens Up About His New SUMO-sized Book From Taschen

Tagged: Photography, digital age

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