82 Quotes by Mario Testino

A photograph can make you feel so many different things. When you look at war photographs of Vietnam, or something similar, it makes you feel anguish and sadness and pain. Then in other moments, when you look at Jackie Kennedy walking down Fifth Avenue, that makes you feel glory and richness.

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.

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.

Oh my God, the graduate shows in London are so important! I still remember going to see John Galliano's graduate collection - that was an event I'll never forget.

I never notice a difference between photographing a man and a woman; for me, it's just somebody.

I think my sense of color I have got from my upbringing in Peru.

I am obsessed with people and how to make them look their best.

I am obsessed by people. Usually I try to get the girl out of the model instead of the model out of the girl.

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.