Mario Testino Quotes

For centuries, the horrors of war have been sculpted by artists so people would never forget.

There have been two popular subjects for poetry in the last few decades: the Vietnam War and AIDS, about both of which almost all of us have felt deeply.

The Romans, though it was a terrible struggle to collect the timber, raised their platforms in twenty-one days, having as described before stripped the whole area in a circle round the town to a distance of ten miles. The countryside like the City was a pitiful sight; for where once there had been a lovely vista of woods and parks there was nothing but desert and stumps of trees. No one - not even a foreigner - who had seen the Old Judea and the glorious suburbs of the City, and now set eyes on her present desolation, could have helped sighing and groaning at so terrible a change; for every trace of beauty had been blotted out by war, and nobody who had known it in the past and came upon it suddenly would have recognized the place: when he was already there he would still have been looking for the City.

I am sometimes accused by my peers of printing my pictures too dark. All I can say is that it goes with the mood of melancholy that is induced by witnessing at close quarters such intractable situations of conflict and joylessness.

In the middle of the nineteenth century, the United States embarked on a new relationship with death, entering into a civil war that proved bloodier than any other conflict in American history, a war that would presage the slaughter of World War I's Western Front and the global carnage of the twentieth century.

In peace, sons bury their fathers. In war, fathers bury their sons.

Shakespeare is all big themes, like the most amazing love, or the most scary war.

The disasters of war can be infinitely eerie and poignant.

Death has a tendency to encourage a depressing view of war.

We may thank God that we can feel pain and know sadness, for these are the human sentiments that constitute our glory as well as our grief.

So war is an extremely sad business, because the majority of people don't want to be in it.

I want to paint something that's gorgeous, something that's perfect. So that it's full of sadness.

Revenge by young men is considered gain, even at the cost of their own lives, but old men who stay at home in times of war, and mothers who have sons to lose, know better.

I remember people who'd had a lot of hardship during the war. They'd thought we'd won.

War isn't just about bravery and courage and jingoism and patriotism. It's also fundamentally about grief. And the people that go and do the fighting and the dying are never the people who actually benefit from the fighting and the dying.

Through this same man and me hath all this war been wrought, and the death of the most noblest knights of the world; for through our love that we have loved together is my most noble lord slain.

No event in American history is more misunderstood than the Vietnam War. It was misreported then, and it is misremembered now.

Successful prime-time television of any genre produces some kind of emotional reaction in the viewers. There are a lot of different emotions to tap into. The emotion of the reward of discovery, the feeling of righteous anger, the feelings of pathos and sadness, or sentimentality of being moved by something.

My subject is War, and the pity of War. The Poetry is in the pity.

Alas, nothing reveals man the way war does. Nothing so accentuates in him the beauty and ugliness, the intelligence and foolishness, the brutishness and humanity, the courage and cowardice, the enigma.

That most unfortunate war, which I deeply deplore.

I don't think we have to have a personal relation to a life lost to understand that something terrible has taken place, especially in the context of war.

I've cried over string arrangements.

I tried to use words that were dealing with the emotional quality that any human being could recognize in the way that they felt about their country. It's to do with the world we live in. That world is a brutal one and full of war. It's also full of many wonderful things and love and hope.

War is a series of catastrophes which result in victory.