#ai

Action is the antidote to despair. ↗

— Joan Baez

#antidote #despair

A severe though not unfriendly critic of our institutions said that the cure for admiring the House of Lords was to go and look at it. ↗

— Walter Bagehot

#critic #cure #go #house #institutions

The being without an opinion is so painful to human nature that most people will leap to a hasty opinion rather than undergo it. ↗

— Walter Bagehot

#hasty #human #human nature #leap #most

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

#before #everything #extraordinary #good #imagination

I did painting before I did photography. ↗

— David Bailey

#did #i #painting #photography

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. ↗

— David Bailey

#accepted #back #desperate #everyone #laid

My father was a tailor, my mother a machinist. ↗

— David Bailey

#mother #tailor

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. ↗

— David Bailey

#anything #artist #arty #because #certain

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

— David Bailey

#confused #different #different things #education #get

Never, never rest contented with any circle of ideas, but always be certain that a wider one is still possible. ↗

— Pearl Bailey

#any #certain #circle #contented #ideas