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 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
A photograph can make you feel so many different things. When you look at war photographs of Vietnam, or something similar, it… — Mario Testino Copy Share Image
I find that my entire life has come to me, and things happened without me planning them. You know, I never asked… — Mario Testino Copy Share Image
At the end of the '90s, I was very bored with the usual models, so I discovered a new generation that impressed… — 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
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
Charm, I think, is education, really, no? I was educated to be nice to everybody. If you want to be rude and… — Mario Testino Copy Share Image
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
A lot of fashion photographers will do the same sort of image for many years; it's easier to be successful if you… — Mario Testino Copy Share Image
I said to my mother, 'When you see my name in 'Vogue,' I will have arrived.' — 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 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
I don't like a tormented photograph. Something attracts you in them, but the attraction isn't because she has a pot on her… — Mario Testino Copy Share Image
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
There are never any absolutes in the fashion business: one day you may like black, and the next day you like colour.… — 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 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 locations. — Mario Testino Copy Share Image
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 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 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 all day… — Mario Testino Copy Share Image
My pictures are my eyes. I photograph what I see - and what I want to see. — Mario Testino 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 do understand… — Mario Testino Copy Share Image
