Mario Testino Quotes & Sayings (Page 5)
Mario Testino quotes and sayings page 5 (70 year old photographer). Here's quote # 41 through 50 out of the 55 we have for him.
“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.”
“At the beginning of my career, as a boy from Peru in London, suddenly discovering British culture and society, I looked so much at the work of the photographers Cecil Beaton and Norman Parkinson, which seemed to represent a wonderful vanished grandeur of my new country.”
“England gave me a chance. It's a very individual country where people have a personal style; they don't all follow a trend. The subtlety and wit of England is incredible, and they are very creative.”
“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.”
“My original idea was to photograph Princess Diana in her tiara. But then I thought, am I interested in seeing another picture of her as a royal person, or would I rather see what she is actually about? And that's why I decided to do her without jewels, without shoes, without trimmings.”
“Some of my friends say that I only talk about myself. But it is funny: my house is covered in art but with nothing of my own, and when I'm working, I'm only thinking about what the client wants. So I don't see it that way, but maybe it's true. I mean, they are my friends.”
“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.”
“Grunge came from a group of English photographers, and they were documenting their own reality... I'm South American - we celebrate life.”
“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.”
“I'm really in no one city more than two months during the year. I'm constantly having to readapt my eye to new locations.”
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