“In the South America of the forties and fifties, everyone was into bea...” — Mario Testino Quote

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

“Charm, I think, is education, really, no? I was educated to be nice to everybody. If you want to be rude and mean, I'm sure your life isn't that nice.”

“When I see Kate Moss out and about, I think she looks more beautiful than when her hairdresser and make-up artist try and make her look like something else. And I remember when Madonna first asked Versace to book me to shoot a campaign with her, she came to see me wearing hardly any make-up, and she looked incredible.”

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

“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.”

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

“It's easy to be a genius in your twenties. In your forties, it's difficult.”

“If you look at most successful startups, they're run by people in their mid to late forties, who've gone through the trenches multiple times and had multiple failures, so they understand.”

“My thirties merged into my forties, and I sort of gradually realised that I don't really want children. Now I'm glad I don't have them. Part of that is because I have my books.”

“I actually think I'm lucky. Because blokes who lose their hair at a later age, in their thirties and forties, get hung up about it. Because they had hair and then lose it. But I've never had that problem.”

“It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won't save us any more than love did.”

“Women are really beautiful in their forties, and men seem to come of age around the period of their second wife.”