Tim Walker Quotations

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.

It is very difficult to make the ideas in my head come to life, but what is harder is making them look effortless.

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. Storytelling - fanciful storytelling - can only be told through fashion photography. It's the perfect way to play with fantasy and dreams.

You have to raise the bar. Give yourself a challenge. Ask yourself, 'How can one make the impossible materialise?'

Even the pictures I was doing at college - a little narrative based on a butterfly catcher, or a chimney sweep - the images were always telling stories. They were all scenarios and moods which I storyboarded and worked through - it's exactly what I do now.

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 can take a portrait of.

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 photographer; a photograph is as much of a mirror of the photographer as it is the subject.

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 a spirit of the times and the zeitgeist.

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 of challenging myself with a complicated idea to currently challenging myself with the idea of simplicity.

We tried to be prepared as best as we could, but right now we are just as limited as anyone else who is dependent on electricity,

Getting more people coming in, more tourists, more out of state, and we even have some people from out of the country.

He's a great guy and a good friend. He's been a real help with our program.

Our goal was to chip away and cut the lead in half by the four- or five-minute mark. We gave ourselves an opportunity to do that, but we just couldn't convert any baskets out of it.

We hit shots, and we hit the offensive glass really well. That was the whole key to the game.

After Monday night, the gas tank was half-empty coming in here. I think we chipped away at a few points, but it took too much energy to do that. They came out a little better, and they did a nice job of jumping on us like that.

It is very important that each person knows what they are supposed to be doing, their personal tasks, ... Defects are assigned to people in a specific order for completion. The dashboard and flowcharts allow management to see our progress in real time and communicate progress to our senior management.

At times we play defense with our offense. I subscribe to that Lou Holtz football theory a little bit. If I've got the ball, the other team can't score.

You could see it. He was always talking to himself. He would be as close as you and I, and you could see him carrying on a conversation with himself.

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 escapism or relief. I think that is very valid.

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 don't want to sound mystical but sometimes when you take a picture - when the sets are in place - then something takes over and leads you. It's this sense of extraordinary luck and chance. The shoot is blessed and charmed, and you make pictures that you couldn't in your wildest dreams have imagined. That is the magic of photography.

I don’t believe in originality. You take inspiration from whatever moves you and you find your voice in those things.

Only photograph what you love.

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 is connected to something that has already been.