Mario Testino Quotes

Knowing what paint a painter uses or having an understanding of where he was in the history of where he came from doesn't hurt your appreciation of the painting.

But what is of great importance to me is observation of the movement of colors.

Everybody thinks they know what art should be. But very few of them have the sense that is necessary to experience painting, that is the sense of sight, that sees colors and forms as living reality in the picture.

In your reading, find books to improve your color sense, your sense of shape and size in the world.

In many ways, a degree in the history of ideas is the ideal training for an aspiring writer.

I love Monet - I've nicknamed him King Blob. When you go up to the painting, it's a series of blobs - amazing.

The history of American women is all about leaving home - crossing oceans and continents, or getting jobs and living on their own.

Because I'm an art historian, I have some experience of writing that comes out of close attention. That's what really art history is. You're looking at something very closely, and you try to write in a meticulous way about it.

I started with the book 'Boardwalk Empire' and then immersed myself in the history of Atlantic City, World War I, the temperance movement, Prohibition, pop culture. I even read the news and magazines of the period just to soak in it. That was before I even started thinking of the story.

Ere we can forecast the future we must understand the present and bring a just sense of proportion to our review of the history of the past.

The history of this country is told by showing people who have contributed to it.

I am here to regret nothing I have already done, to retract nothing I have already said …. The history of Ireland explains this crime, and justifies it ….

Power has to do with whatever decisions men make about the arrangements under which they live and about the events which make up the history of their times.

Universal history is the history of a few metaphors.

If the ideas of any particular man are determined by his environment, then the ideas of humanity, in their historical development, are determined by the development of the social environment, by the history of social relationships.

… words acquire scope and function from the history of events which they summarize

A good history covers not only what was done, but the thought that went into the action. You can read the history of a country through its actions.

Our ideas are only partly our ideas. Most of our ideas are abbreviations or residues of the thought of other people …. This means that the clarification of our political ideas insensibly changes into and becomes indistinguishable from the history of political ideas.

Americans’ manner of viewing foreign adversaries today is rooted in the history of their country’s past relations with the outside world. Their attitudes have been shaped especially by the most costly and all-consuming episodes in that history, in particular the wars—hot and cold—of the 20th century.

Random forays into the history of political language with undue regard for the detail of historical context all too often end up as exercises in self confirmation.

Certainly, the illiterates of past centuries, then an enormous majority of mankind, knew little of the history of their respective countries and of their civilization. In the minds of modern illiterates, however, who know how to read and write and even teach in schools and at universities, history is present but blurred, in a state of strange confusion; Molière becomes a contemporary of Napoleon, Voltaire, a contemporary of Lenin.

I know colors like some people know a melody. And the tunes of my favorite musicians energizes me when I work.

When you are organizing a group of people, the first thing that we do is we talk about the history of what other people have been able to accomplish - people that look like them, workers like them, ordinary people, working people - and we give them the list: these are people like yourself; this is what they were able to do in their community.

I'm a formalist. I'm interested in the history of painting.

I was always pretty interested in my history. Not just the history of the Caribbean, the history of my people, but all walks of life.