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Mario Testino
Mario Testino
Peruvian Photographer
Born: Oct 30, 1954
Am Fashion Me People Think You
Related authors: Annie Leibovitz Ansel Adams Cecil Beaton David Bailey Diane Arbus Dorothea Lange Gordon Parks Robert Mapplethorpe
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
You Words Opportunities Doors Think Possibilities Favourite Open Curiosity Curious The Doors Then Create
When you're nice, people like you and will want to work with you. But it can mean that they take you for granted. Mario Testino
Work You People Will Nice Take Like Want Mean Granted Nice People
It's a choice - there are two different sorts of photographer: those obsessed with the technicalities and those obsessed by the subject. Mario Testino
Those Photographer Obsessed Sort Subject Different Choice Two
Many people when I started didn't believe I was a good fashion photographer, and probably they still think that. Mario Testino
Good Fashion People Believe Think Photographer Still Many Started
A lot of fashion photographers will do the same sort of image for many years; it's easier to be successful if you do that. Mario Testino
Fashion You Will Easier Photographers Sort Years Lot Same Successful Many 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 head or tonnes of make-up and weird clothes and weird everything. Mario Testino
You Clothes Everything Tormented Photograph Pot Something Head Weird Like Attraction She Attracts Because Them Her
I never notice a difference between photographing a man and a woman; for me, it's just somebody. Mario Testino
Me Man Woman Somebody Photographing Never Between Just Difference Notice
I have no real training in the history of fine art or furniture; my eye just works by proportions. I react intuitively. In London, it's all about color because the weather is so gray, and in that cold light they look beautiful. Mario Testino
Beautiful Art History Training Light Weather Cold Furniture Eye Fine Fine Art London Intuitively About Color Proportions Look React Because Real Just The History Of Works Gray
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. Mario Testino
Food People Mountains Think Everybody Our Those Promoting About Something Because Am Discover Very Much Should Peru Aware
At one moment, I thought that if I didn't do a picture in a certain way, then it wasn't a 'Mario Testino Picture.' And I've realized that Mario Testino is everything, Mario Testino is whatever he feels like being, because it always ends up looking like me, whatever I do. Mario Testino
Me Thought Picture Looking Whatever Mario Everything Way He Feels Like Because Always Up Being Ends Realized Then Certain Certain Way Moment
I find that my entire life has come to me, and things happened without me planning them. You know, I never asked to photograph Princess Diana, and that made me more famous than I wanted. I never asked to photograph Madonna, and that pushed me to another level. There are things that just take you into the limelight. Mario Testino
Life Me You Made Photograph Find Madonna Entire Entire Life More Take Never Pushed Come Know Princess Princess Diana Another Limelight Without Diana Than Just Famous Wanted Happened Them Asked Planning Level Things
I have become aware on my travels that when a country loses the connection between its history and its traditional dress, something truly precious is lost. Mario Testino
History Country Become Lost Dress Something Between Traditional Loses Truly Precious Connection Aware Travels
I think my sense of color I have got from my upbringing in Peru. Mario Testino
Sense Think Color Got Upbringing Peru
I studied law, economy, international relations, communications, in order to find what I would do. It's the hardest thing, being 17 and trying to find what to do in life. You've explored so little. I'm lucky: My parents let me explore. Mario Testino
Life Me You Law Parents International Relations Relations Would Find Studied Economy Trying The Hardest Thing Being Order Little Communications Explore Explored International Lucky Hardest Hardest Thing Thing
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. Mario Testino
Best Needs Family Members Photographed Someone Feel Look Comfortable Camera Even Aware Royal Royal Family
A lot of photographers like models to be blank canvases - but bland girls don't influence me. I don't like playing with dolls; I like playing with people. Mario Testino
Me People Girl Photographers Bland Blank Like Dolls Lot Models Influence Playing
Being Peruvian means to come from the farthest place possible to get to Europe. Peru is the land of the Incas. It was the capital of South America; it was where the Spanish founded their empire and took over the Inca Empire and made it into a colony of Spain. Mario Testino
Made Took Possible Colony Empire Over Come South South America America Get Being Where Place Spain Spanish Land Capital Means Peru Europe Farthest Founded
My favourite subjects at school were algebra and logic: making a big problem into something small. Mario Testino
Problem School Big Algebra Logic Favourite Something Small Making Were Subjects Big Problem
At the end of the '90s, I was very bored with the usual models, so I discovered a new generation that impressed me with their fresh look. I still keep working with models like Gisele Bundchen and Kate Moss, and I am still looking for new, interesting faces. Life is about discovery, and you should never stop searching. Mario Testino
Life Me You Generation Looking Bored About Faces Never Never Stop New Like Moss Look New Generation Fresh Am Fresh Look Still Discovered Discovery Impressed End Very Models Stop Interesting Should Working Kate Kate Moss Usual Searching Keep
Grunge came from a group of English photographers, and they were documenting their own reality... I'm South American - we celebrate life. Mario Testino
Life Celebrate Reality Own Group Photographers Documenting Came Were South American English Grunge
In the South America of the forties and fifties, everyone was into beauty and glamour and fashion. Mario Testino
Fashion Beauty Everyone Glamour South South America America Fifties Forties
I said to my mother, 'When you see my name in 'Vogue,' I will have arrived.' Mario Testino
You Mother Will See Vogue Name Said Arrived
Some things happen by accident - embrace them. Mario Testino
Accident Embrace Some Some Things Happen Them Things Things Happen

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