Mario Testino Quotes
My favourite words are possibilities, opportunities and curiosity. I think if you are curious, you create opportunities, and then if you open the doors, you create possibilities.
It's a choice - there are two different sorts of photographer: those obsessed with the technicalities and those obsessed by the subject.
I started being a photographer because I liked fashion. I liked the idea of dressing up and changing my look. I got earrings, dyed my hair. I would dress like a fashion photo.
No! Beauty is emotional! That's why plastic surgery never works. Women who want to change their nose, lips, they don't understand that they are doing nothing except erasing their magic.
I usually try to make my images look like they just exist, like no effort was put into it.
The more I photograph women, the less it is about transformation. Women are beautiful. All that really matters is enhancing that.
Work is your life, it’s not a rehearsal. You work 7 days a week so you may as well enjoy those days.
Ive been criticised for pretty, smiley photographs, but at least someone is happy! In my mind, I am always giving the image to the sitter.
My favourite subjects at school were algebra and logic: making a big problem into something small.
In Los Angeles, individuality is very big, because people live in secluded bubbles. People don't walk around. They're very insular, and that allows for people to be whatever they want.
I am very much about promoting Lima because I think Peru and the mountains and the Incas, everybody is aware of those, but Lima is something that people should discover - especially our food.
Even someone as photographed and aware of the camera as members of the royal family needs to feel completely comfortable if they are to look their best.