Tim Walker Quotes

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• I don’t believe in originality. You take inspiration from whatever moves you and you find your voice in those things.
• You have to raise the bar. Give yourself a challenge. Ask yourself, 'How can one make the impossible materialise?'
• It is very difficult to make the ideas in my head come to life, but what is harder is making them look effortless.
• I know the world that I am painting is not a reality. It is a whim, an entertainment to provoke something in people, whether as…
• I don't want to sound mystical but sometimes when you take a picture - when the sets are in place - then something takes over…
• The point of fashion is that you take the picture you want. And fashion is the only photography that allows fantasy, and I'm a fantasist.
• I like capturing stuff that is disappearing - that’s the point of photography. What I am photographing is an imaginary place that never existed, but…
• I've never been in love with fashion, actually; trends and catwalks don't interest me. I love clothes; I love them historically and currently. They represent…
• Your aim as a photographer is to get a picture of that person that means something. Portraits aren't fantasies; they need to tell a truth.
• Even the pictures I was doing at college - a little narrative based on a butterfly catcher, or a chimney sweep - the images were…
• Fantasy isn't something I put into the pictures; I don't try and inject them with a sense of play. But it's about being an honest…
• I'm very particular who I work with. I'm not interested in portraying women with a cliched, generic look. I'm interested in a model who I…
• Looking back at my earlier pictures, I think that the work is very much coming from the same place. I have gone through a period…
• When I was at college, the idea of fashion was more immediate to me, whereas art photography, the depth of it, was a different thing.…
• Only photograph what you love.
• Never Stop Learning! When you stop learning you stop living. You become a reservoir instead of a river.

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