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 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
England is the country where I learned my profession. They are the ones that trained me, they are the ones that believed… — Mario Testino 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 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
