Mario Testino quotes

My pictures are my eyes. I photograph what I see - and what I want to see. (Mario Testino)

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

Some things happen by accident - embrace them.

Mario Testino

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

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

My favourite subjects at school were algebra and logic: making a big problem into something small.

Mario Testino

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

I said to my mother, 'When you see my name in 'Vogue,' I will have arrived.'

Mario Testino

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 mix Incan minimalism with the heavy, ornate Spanish Baroque, it is very interesting.

Mario Testino

Charm, I think, is education, really, no? I was educated to be nice to everybody. If you want to be rude and mean, I'm sure your life isn't that nice.

Mario Testino

It's a choice - there are two different sorts of photographer: those obsessed with the technicalities and those obsessed by the subject. (Mario Testino)

Some people strive for perfection, but I often find perfection boring.

Mario Testino

I've never wanted to call myself any sexuality, because I hate the idea of taking freedom away from you, and I think we all can be everything. I understand that at moments you have to define it, but my sexuality has been so wide and open, and that's what's influenced my way of working. I think it's given me freedom, my sexuality.

Mario Testino