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All Quotes by author - Francois Nars

" A fresh face with a red lip is timeless. It's supermodern and relaxed but very chic. "

" As a make-up artist, you always want to be in a good light, whether you're walking down the street or in a restaurant. It is a very key element to me; you can't apply good make-up in a bad light. "

" A woman who hides behind a mask of makeup is still going to have to take it off at some point... and deal with reality. "

" Being a studio make-up artist and working on magazines was the only thing I wanted to do. "

" Even with - the best make-up in the world won't look good if you don't cleanse and exfoliate and have a good basic regime. This is why one of my goals has always been to create a skincare line. "

" Find your own way, have an open spirit, and believe in your own beauty. "

" From the start, I used a different kind of girl in Nars campaign images. My choice to use models of colour such as Alek Wek, Naomi Campbell and Karen Park Goude was absolutely a deliberate one. I felt that makeup was universal and should apply to everybody. "

" Go with what you're attracted to. "

" Having worked with so many of the geniuses, I'd learned so much. It's the best sort of photography school, to work with people like Penn or Avedon or Meisel. "

" I always had a vision about beauty in general, so probably that's what really drove me into that direction of creating a makeup brand. "

" I can't remember the first time, but I've worked with supermodels almost from day one. "

" I chose makeup over photography because there was something very sensual about makeup that I loved. But photography was always in the back of my mind. That was always something that I was very connected with: looking at magazines, enjoying photography, and then taking pictures myself when I was a kid. "

" I didn't want to create a makeup line for one ethnic group; it had to be multi-ethnic. To me, beauty is beauty. It doesn't matter to me what colour the skin is. "

" I don't think there's a major change between runway and real life anymore. "

" I fell in love with New York. I moved here 25 years ago in 1984 after I lived in Paris for six years. In the 1980s, it was the place to be. Here I was able to create NARS, which I would not have been able to create if I stayed in France. "

" I had no connections, and the fashion world was a closed elite. So my mother made appointments for herself with three top Parisian makeup artists and spoke highly about me... she was my first publicist! "

" I hate knowing where people go to the bathroom. You follow them going to pee, to eat - I hate everything when it comes to reality shows! "

" I have always been attracted to faces that are different. "

" I launched NARS with 12 shades of lipsticks, and many, many launches later, I'm still most proud of our lipsticks. "

" I like beauty to be a bit edgy, not typical. For me, the only rule is looking good. "

" I like shocking, but I don't like to shock as an automatic process. Sometimes it happens, but it's not my main drive. "

" I'll keep creating modern, deep, rich and adventurous colors and products that inspire creative expression every day. "

" I loved working with Avedon. "

" I love so much the models from the '60s and the '70s. They were extremely professional, great models who knew how to work the camera so well and loved fashion and had a great sense of style. "

" I love strong looks, so to me, no makeup is strong. As long as it makes a statement, that's what I like. The girls look very real, and I'm probably the only makeup artist who will say that I love a woman without makeup. "

" I love the architecture magazines and all of the French magazines for decoration or whatever. I end up enjoying them more sometimes than the fashion magazines. "

" I love the dramatic idea of having nothing on. "

" I love to collaborate with artists, like Guy Bourdin and Steven Klein, who don't have any boundaries. "

" I made contours and all that, but in real life, you have to be very careful with that because you can go out in the street and look terrible. All those girls who show how to do contour, they do it quite well, but they're like makeup artists. They're in artificial light. "

" I'm always looking to the lightweight superproduct that you apply and almost don't see. That's the ultimate, at least for me. "

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