Mario Testino famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Some people strive for perfection, but I often find perfection boring
-- Mario Testino

#Perfection #People #Boring
The more I photograph women, the less it is about transformation. Women are beautiful. All that really matters is enhancing that
-- Mario Testino

#Beautiful #Matter #Transformation
I had the right amount of detachment to go back and really appreciate what I had grown up with. Thereâ€™s a particular style that is very Peru that you donâ€™t see anywhere else; itâ€™s got so many different imprints. When you mix Incan minimalism with the heavy, ornate Spanish Baroque, it is very interesting.
-- Mario Testino

#Appreciate #Interesting #Style
Chic is nothing but the right nothing.
-- Mario Testino

#Chic
I waited a long time, an hour or two, to make that picture perfect. But I wasn't totally satisfied. Then, when I'd finished the shoot, they were about to leave and they suddenly hugged in front of a radiator. I took my camera and that was the picture that ran everywhere - it was spontaneous emotion you could see they were completely in love.
-- Mario Testino

#Two #Long #Perfect
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.
-- Mario Testino

#Opportunity #Thinking #Doors
My pictures are my eyes. I photograph what I see - and what I want to see.
-- Mario Testino

#Eye #Want #Photograph
I usually try to make my images look like they just exist, like no effort was put into it.
-- Mario Testino

#Effort #Trying #Looks
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.
-- Mario Testino

#Fashion #Hair #Dressing Up
There is something about Prince William and Prince Harry that brings real modernity to the British royal family. They are also very open, human, and kind, and this is what I have tried to capture in the pictures I have taken of them as well as in my pictures of Prince William and Catherine.
-- Mario Testino

#Real #Taken #Royal
Some things happen by accident - embrace them.
-- Mario Testino

#Embrace #Accidents #Things Happen
My favourite subjects at school were algebra and logic: making a big problem into something small.
-- Mario Testino

#School #Logic #Problem
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.
-- Mario Testino

#Giving #Mind #Smiley
The way men are seen in photography, in fashion, and the way that men look at pictures of themselves has changed in recent years. It is a subject that has come into focus: The masculine image, a manâ€™s personal style, changing attitudes to the male face and body,
-- Mario Testino

#Photography #Fashion #Attitude
My favorite type of photography - apart from fashion photography - is journalism, which in a way documents something that exists in a very precise moment, that didnt exist in a moment before and will not exist ever again. This has influenced my work a lot - I usually try to make my images look like they just exist, like no effort was put into it.
-- Mario Testino

#Photography #Fashion #Effort
Work is your life, itâ€™s not a rehearsal. You work 7 days a week so you may as well enjoy those days.
-- Mario Testino

#May #Rehearsal #Week
I was amazed by this person who, even though she had everything, would go to feed the homeless and visit sick children and Aids victims. It was like a fairy tale. Who was she really? Why did she do this? She was trying to find love. I wanted the world to see her kindness, her humility: I think she realised that would be her way.
-- Mario Testino

#Kindness #Children #Humility
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.
-- Mario Testino

#Emotional #Magic #Noses
My favourite words are possibilities, opportunities and curiosity,
-- Mario Testino

#Opportunity #Curiosity #Possibility

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