#her

The habit of common and continuous speech is a symptom of mental deficiency. It proceeds from not knowing what is going on in other people's minds. ↗

— Walter Bagehot

#continuous #deficiency #going #habit #knowing

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

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

— David Bailey

#enough #great #love #photographer

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

— David Bailey

#beautiful #becomes #fashion #off #often

I never set out to be a photographer. ↗

— David Bailey

#never #out #photographer #set

I was surrounded by strong women so it had never even occurred to me that women were anything other than equal to men. ↗

— David Bailey

#equal #even #had #i #me

I'm not a philosopher, I'm just a simple boy from East Ham. ↗

— David Bailey

#east #ham #i #just #philosopher

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

I do not yet know why plants come out of the land or float in streams, or creep on rocks or roll from the sea. I am entranced by the mystery of them, and absorbed by their variety and kinds. Everywhere they are visible yet everywhere occult. ↗

— Liberty Hyde Bailey

#come #creep #entranced #everywhere #float