Tim Walker Quotes

I do fashion to tell a narrative.

I started being a photographer because I liked fashion. I liked the idea of dressing up and changing my look. I got earrings, dyed my hair. I would dress like a fashion photo.

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 to write about things that don't reflect exactly on my life.

I always say I make pictures rather than take pictures.

I paint what cannot be photographed, that which comes from the imagination or from dreams, or from an unconscious drive.

I don't design clothes, I design dreams.

When you're a fashion photographer, you must inspire a dream.

I love to dress up and create a narrative with my look.

I make pictures to tell a story, to tell lies, and to amuse.

To me, art and storytelling serve primal, spiritual functions in my daily life. Whether I'm telling a bedtime story to my kids or trying to mount a movie or write a short story or a novel, I take it very seriously.

I don't paint, and I can't draw, but I see things, I think, quite well, and I love being able to freeze things with the camera, particularly the children. Then I discovered with the camera that you can tell a whole story with just freezing a moment in reality. I find it a very good way, a very satisfying feeling.

As artists, our job is to communicate thoughts and tell stories.

I'm a lover of film and storytelling. I believe that I was put on earth to tell stories, and I'm not interested in telling the same stories over and over and over again.

Fashion is about having a fantasy.

People don't want to see clothes, they want to see something that fuels the imagination.

If it's not there in fashion, fantasize it.

Through art, you create your own world.

The clothes that I design and everything I've done is about life and how people live and how they want to live and how they dream they'll live. That's what I do.

I love art and fashion.

To tell a good story and to illuminate the world: the two things are completely linked. That is the point. That is what I've always wanted to do.

There's a side to me that likes to make clothes for everyday. But I also think of fashion as an escape. It's like a dream. Even in an economy that isn't strong and where it's important to sell clothes, you have to make things that let people dream a little.

I love the idea of things being strict and things being uniform. That's the reason why I surround each collection with humor or irony. I want to make sure that it's not too serious and that there is some element that throws it off because otherwise that would make it really boring. There's always a story that's somewhat fantastical.

So I don't think of myself as just a musician at all, I think of myself as an artist.