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You have to believe 100 percent in what you're doing, that some picture or some thing we do is going to change the world in some tiny, minute way. Lynsey Addario

You Change World Picture Believe Change The World Way Minute Some Percent Doing Going Tiny Thing

I paint what cannot be photographed, that which comes from the imagination or from dreams, or from an unconscious drive. Man Ray

Dreams Drive Imagination Photographed Unconscious Cannot Which Paint

A creator needs only one enthusiast to justify him. Man Ray

Needs Enthusiast Only Him Justify Creator

Of course, there will always be those who look only at technique, who ask 'how', while others of a more curious nature will ask 'why'. Personally, I have always preferred inspiration to information. Man Ray

I photograph the things that I do not wish to paint, the things which already have an existence. Man Ray

Wish Photograph Existence Which Paint Things

An original is a creation motivated by desire. Any reproduction of an originals motivated be necessity. It is marvelous that we are the only species that creates gratuitous forms. To create is divine, to reproduce is human. Man Ray

Creation Only Marvelous Divine Motivated Any Human Reproduce Reproduction Forms Create Creates Original Originals Gratuitous Species Necessity Desire

Saturate yourself with your subject and the camera will all but take you by the hand. Margaret Bourke-White

You Yourself Will Take Camera Subject Hand Your Saturate

Work is something you can count on, a trusted, lifelong friend who never deserts you. Margaret Bourke-White

Work You Something Lifelong Count Never Friend Trusted Who Deserts

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

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

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

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

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

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

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