My pictures are my eyes. I photograph what I see - and what I want to see. — Mario Testino Copy Share Image
I think my sense of color I have got from my upbringing in Peru. — Mario Testino Color Copy Share Image
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 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 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
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
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
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
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
The year has 365 days, and I want each and every one of them to be exciting. — Mario Testino Copy Share Image
In the South America of the forties and fifties, everyone was into beauty and glamour and fashion. — Mario Testino America 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
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
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
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
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
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 like getting my ideas from the things of now. I am very conscious of the moment, of images that belong to… — 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
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 Copy Share Image
Most photographers go and photograph something that they see, that exists, and that somebody else has created - they document it. But… — 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… — Mario Testino 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 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 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
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
My favourite subjects at school were algebra and logic: making a big problem into something small. — Mario Testino Algebra Copy Share Image
I've been criticised for pretty, smiley photographs, but at least someone is happy! In my mind, I am always giving the image… — Mario Testino Copy Share Image
Fine artists reflect, and then they act. Fashion photographers - we act, and then we reflect. — Mario Testino Copy Share Image
I never notice a difference between photographing a man and a woman; for me, it's just somebody. — Mario Testino 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 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
