When you're nice, people like you and will want to work with you. But it can mean that they take you for… — Mario Testino Copy Share Image
I am obsessed by people. Usually I try to get the girl out of the model instead of the model out of… — Mario Testino Copy Share Image
Many people when I started didn't believe I was a good fashion photographer, and probably they still think that. — Mario Testino Copy Share Image
Some people strive for perfection, but I often find perfection boring — Mario Testino Copy Share Image
In Los Angeles, individuality is very big, because people live in secluded bubbles. People don't walk around. They're very insular, and that… — Mario Testino Copy Share Image
I am very much about promoting Lima because I think Peru and the mountains and the Incas, everybody is aware of those,… — Mario Testino Copy Share Image
A lot of photographers like models to be blank canvases - but bland girls don't influence me. I don't like playing with… — Mario Testino Copy Share Image
England gave me a chance. It's a very individual country where people have a personal style; they don't all follow a trend.… — Mario Testino Copy Share Image
You have to be you. You can't be anybody else. If you speak loudly, and people tell you to speak quietly, you… — Mario Testino Copy Share Image
I studied law, economy, international relations, communications, in order to find what I would do. It's the hardest thing, being 17 and trying to… — Mario Testino Copy Share
Ultimately, I made my range wider because I wanted to suit each publication that I worked for. Talk about reinvention - I'm like the… — Mario Testino Copy Share
As photographers, we have to find our own identity, our own voice, our own vocabulary. And my question all the time is whether this… — Mario Testino Copy Share
Most photographers go and photograph something that they see, that exists, and that somebody else has created - they document it. But fashion photographers… — Mario Testino Copy Share
I'm really in no one city more than two months during the year. I'm constantly having to readapt my eye to new locations. — Mario Testino Copy Share
My favorite type of photography - apart from fashion photography - is journalism, which in a way documents something that exists in a very… — Mario Testino Copy Share
It's a choice - there are two different sorts of photographer: those obsessed with the technicalities and those obsessed by the subject. — Mario Testino Copy Share
When I had photographed Prince William's mother, I brought along a CD of Dalida, a French singer, that we played on set all day… — Mario Testino Copy Share
My pictures are my eyes. I photograph what I see - and what I want to see. — Mario Testino Copy Share
I am trying to capture the women I photograph at their happiest. That is when they look their most beautiful. But I do understand… — Mario Testino Copy Share
Even someone as photographed and aware of the camera as members of the royal family needs to feel completely comfortable if they are to… — Mario Testino Copy Share
At one moment, I thought that if I didn't do a picture in a certain way, then it wasn't a 'Mario Testino Picture.' And… — Mario Testino Copy Share
A photograph can make you feel so many different things. When you look at war photographs of Vietnam, or something similar, it makes you… — Mario Testino Copy Share
