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Mario Testino Quotes

Peruvian - Photographer | October 30, 1954 -

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.

Life Me Planning You Find Princess

I adore being able to go to the Oscars and know every single person at the party afterwards.

Party Person Go Know Single Being

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.

Style Creative People Me Chance Wit

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

Perfection People Find Boring Strive

Some things happen by accident - embrace them.

Things Happen Embrace Happen Things

Grunge came from a group of English photographers, and they were documenting their own reality... I'm South American - we celebrate life.

Life Celebrate Reality American Own

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

Beauty Fashion America Glamour South

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

Mother Name You Said Will See

I do a lot of decision making before each shoot. It's a luxury to be able to choose what you do.

Decision Luxury You Choose Shoot

When you're nice, people like you and will want to work with you. But it can mean that they take you for granted.

Work People You Nice Want Mean

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.

Photography Talk Suit Because Made

South America was not really that open - you had to fit in, and I didn't fit in. I was different - my tastes, my point of view - were a bit weird, and I found in Britain a sense of calm, that I could just be.

Calm Weird View America You Open

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