Fine artists reflect, and then they act. Fashion photographers - we act, and then we reflect. — 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
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'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
In the South America of the forties and fifties, everyone was into beauty and glamour and fashion. — Mario Testino America 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
I've always had an affinity with women. It probably started with my mother when I was young, but it was intensified by… — Mario Testino Affinity 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 Absolutes 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… — 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 Anguish Copy Share Image
A man today has to live with the reality of today. He can no longer live with the reality of 100 years… — 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 Attraction Copy Share Image
The liberation of women has brought a lot of equality to the man, in the emancipation of the man as a bulldog;… — Mario Testino Copy Share Image
There is something about Prince William and Prince Harry that brings real modernity to the British royal family. They are also very… — Mario Testino Copy Share Image
