82 Quotes by Mario Testino

Many people when I started didn't believe I was a good fashion photographer, and probably they still think that.

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.

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

In the South America of the forties and fifties, everyone was into beauty and glamour and fashion.

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

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.

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

When I see Kate Moss out and about, I think she looks more beautiful than when her hairdresser and make-up artist try and make her look like something else. And I remember when Madonna first asked Versace to book me to shoot a campaign with her, she came to see me wearing hardly any make-up, and she looked incredible.

Ultimately, I made my range wider because I wanted to suit each publication that I worked for. Talk about reinvention - I'm like the Madonna of photography.