My pictures are my eyes. I photograph what I see - and what I want to see. - Mario Testino

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Civilization today reminds me of an ape with a blowtorch playing in a room full of dynamite. It looks like the monkeys are about to operate the zoo, and the inmates are taking over the asylum.

Mario Testino

My pictures are my eyes. I photograph what I see - and what I want to see.

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The way men are seen in photography, in fashion, and the way that men look at pictures of themselves has changed in recent years. It is a subject that has come into focus: The masculine image, a man's personal style, changing attitudes to the male face and body.

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

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My favourite words are possibilities, opportunities and curiosity. I think if you are curious, you create opportunities, and then if you open the doors, you create possibilities.

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Most photographers go and photograph something that they see, that exists, and that somebody else has created - they document it. But fashion photographers have to create what they're going to photograph. We have to go into the thought and build it up, get a girl, get a guy, get a situation, get the house, get the decor. It's the meaning of the word photography: "writing with light. "

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

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