Quotes from Mario Testino

Work is your life, it's not a rehearsal. You work 7 days a week so you may as well enjoy those days.

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.

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.

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

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

My favourite subjects at school were algebra and logic: making a big problem into something small.

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.

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.