My favourite words are possibilities, opportunities and curiosity, — Mario Testino Curiosity Copy Share Image
Some people strive for perfection, but I often find perfection boring — Mario Testino Boring Copy Share Image
My pictures are my eyes. I photograph what I see - and what I want to see. — Mario Testino Eye Copy Share Image
I think my sense of color I have got from my upbringing in Peru. — Mario Testino Color 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'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
I adore being able to go to the Oscars and know every single person at the party afterwards. — Mario Testino Able Copy Share Image
Work is your life, it’s not a rehearsal. You work 7 days a week so you may as well enjoy those days. — Mario Testino Enjoy Copy Share Image
England is the country where I learned my profession. They are the ones that trained me, they are the ones that believed… — Mario Testino Believed 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 Believe 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 Able 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 Granted 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 Anybody 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 have become aware on my travels that when a country loses the connection between its history and its traditional dress, something… — Mario Testino Aware 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
I am trying to capture the women I photograph at their happiest. That is when they look their most beautiful. But I… — Mario Testino Am 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 About 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
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
When I see Kate Moss out and about, I think she looks more beautiful than when her hairdresser and make-up artist try… — Mario Testino About 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 All day 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
At the end of the '90s, I was very bored with the usual models, so I discovered a new generation that impressed… — Mario Testino About Copy Share Image
I like getting my ideas from the things of now. I am very conscious of the moment, of images that belong to… — Mario Testino Conscious 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 Another Copy Share Image
I was amazed by this person who, even though she had everything, would go to feed the homeless and visit sick children… — Mario Testino Aids Copy Share Image
I had the right amount of detachment to go back and really appreciate what I had grown up with. There’s a particular… — Mario Testino Amount Copy Share Image
The year has 365 days, and I want each and every one of them to be exciting. — Mario Testino 365 days 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 Easier Copy Share Image
Ive been criticised for pretty, smiley photographs, but at least someone is happy! In my mind, I am always giving the image… — Mario Testino Giving Copy Share Image
Grunge came from a group of English photographers, and they were documenting their own reality... I'm South American - we celebrate life. — Mario Testino American 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 Am Copy Share Image
The more I photograph women, the less it is about transformation. Women are beautiful. All that really matters is enhancing that — Mario Testino Beautiful Copy Share Image
I usually try to make my images look like they just exist, like no effort was put into it. — Mario Testino Effort Copy Share Image
I said to my mother, 'When you see my name in 'Vogue,' I will have arrived.' — Mario Testino Arrived Copy Share Image
I never notice a difference between photographing a man and a woman; for me, it's just somebody. — Mario Testino Between Copy Share Image
