I do a lot of decision making before each shoot. It's a luxury to be able to choose what you do. — 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
It's a choice - there are two different sorts of photographer: those obsessed with the technicalities and those obsessed by the subject. — Mario Testino Choice Copy Share Image
I adore being able to go to the Oscars and know every single person at the party afterwards. — Mario Testino Copy Share Image
I'm really in no one city more than two months during the year. I'm constantly having to readapt my eye to new… — Mario Testino City Copy Share Image
No! Beauty is emotional! That's why plastic surgery never works. Women who want to change their nose, lips, they don't understand that… — Mario Testino Beauty Copy Share Image
There's a particular style that is very Peru that you don't see anywhere else; it's got so many different imprints. When you… — Mario Testino Copy Share Image
The way men are seen in photography, in fashion, and the way that men look at pictures of themselves has changed in… — Mario Testino Attitude 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
Even someone as photographed and aware of the camera as members of the royal family needs to feel completely comfortable if they… — Mario Testino Copy Share Image
South America was not really that open - you had to fit in, and I didn't fit in. I was different -… — Mario Testino America Copy Share Image
My favourite words are possibilities, opportunities and curiosity. I think if you are curious, you create opportunities, and then if you open… — Mario Testino Curiosity 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
When I had photographed Prince William's mother, I brought along a CD of Dalida, a French singer, that we played on set… — Mario Testino Copy Share Image
I waited a long time, an hour or two, to make that picture perfect. But I wasn't totally satisfied. Then, when I'd… — Mario Testino Cameras Copy Share Image
Oh my God, the graduate shows in London are so important! I still remember going to see John Galliano's graduate collection -… — Mario Testino Copy Share Image
At one moment, I thought that if I didn't do a picture in a certain way, then it wasn't a 'Mario Testino… — Mario Testino Copy Share Image
However spontaneous I hope a photograph will look, I always put a lot of thought into how I can make it happen.… — Mario Testino Copy Share Image
At the beginning of my career, as a boy from Peru in London, suddenly discovering British culture and society, I looked so… — Mario Testino Beginning 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
I have no real training in the history of fine art or furniture; my eye just works by proportions. I react intuitively.… — Mario Testino Copy Share Image
To me, the magic of photography, per se, is that you can capture an instant of a second that couldn't exist before… — Mario Testino Copy Share Image
A fashion photographer is nothing without clothes and hair and makeup. And when I speak to other photographers, a lot of them… — Mario Testino Business Copy Share Image
My original idea was to photograph Princess Diana in her tiara. But then I thought, am I interested in seeing another picture… — Mario Testino Copy Share Image
Being Peruvian means to come from the farthest place possible to get to Europe. Peru is the land of the Incas. It… — Mario Testino America Copy Share Image
As photographers, we have to find our own identity, our own voice, our own vocabulary. And my question all the time is… — Mario Testino Copy Share Image
I have become aware on my travels that when a country loses the connection between its history and its traditional dress, something… — 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… — Mario Testino Being Copy Share Image
I am trying to capture the women I photograph at their happiest. That is when they look their most beautiful. But I… — 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 Chance 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
Some of my friends say that I only talk about myself. But it is funny: my house is covered in art but… — Mario Testino Copy Share Image
I started being a photographer because I liked fashion. I liked the idea of dressing up and changing my look. I got… — Mario Testino Copy Share Image
