Mario Testino Quotes

I have many musical inspirations, but I would really love to just be me. My very own artist.

But at a certain point, you have to take your influence and find your own voice if you want to become a relevant artist.

I really don't have any secrets. I've never met a photographer whose work I respected that had a secret because the secret lies within each and every one of us.

I don't feel I have to be Jackson Browne. Still, I like to say something.

I'm now able to show who I am as an artist.

My style is raw; my style is '95. My style is what I live. My style is my story.

I feel like the point of being an artist is to have your own voice: to do it the way you would do it and not the way anyone else would do it. If you're a strong enough writer, then that voice is going to come out all the time, and I can't stop it from coming out, no matter what I do.

I feel like it's important, especially at young age, to find exactly what it is that makes your style so important as opposed to just trying to fit into the iconic styles of performers out there.

He has found his style, when he cannot do otherwise.

If you do not express your own original ideas, if you do not listen to your own being, you will have betrayed yourself.

Everything I record, I just try to sound like me and come up with songs that suit what I do, and then just go for it.

My physical transformations - like changing my hair - are usually a reflection of what's inspiring me at the moment.

Whatever is about you that is translated into your art, that's gonna keep you completly original and fresh and I just think that, that's just the best advice I can give, to an artist creatively.

I didn't start to work until I realized what it was I had to offer. I stopped imitating performers I admired and started just being myself.

To be a true artist, I have to be true to who I am now and write that way.

I really don't think of my work in terms of a genre. I think of it in terms of what I want to say, what I think is cool, and what I'm good at.

Personally, I feel that in my own work I wanted to look programmed or impersonal but I don't really believe I am being impersonal when I do it. And I don't think you could do this.

The whole point in developing your own style is to find your own voice.

Young writers often mistakenly choose a certain vein or style based on who they want to be, unconsciously trying to blot out who they actually are. You want to escape yourself.

I remember a distinct moment when it was my junior year of college, and the content I was making was changing and not really myself, and I tried to switch back to just putting me out there. I'm happy that happened really early in my career, because that was before I started doing podcasts or writing.

Directors tell me what to do, and I kind of just put my own twist to it, just to get inside my personality that everybody doesn't really get to see - my off-the-court interests and the way I act. It's just me.

What I learned is, don't forget who you are, because that's what's going to make you a filmmaker.

To me, what makes an artist is a unique personality that they're not afraid to let show.

If you look at the common denominator of all the comics who have had big success, it's being true to their nature... that's what takes a long time to learn.

You just get out there and be what you want to be. That's part of evolving and part of staying true to yourself - part of remaining alive in a real authentic, long-term sense creatively: not listening to what other people tell you to be.