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

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" 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. "

" I wanted to be a make up artist. I did it, and the road that I took was quite good. "

" True icons are larger than life, unforgettable with an elegance that's mesmerizingly timeless. "

" My vision was to create makeup that was more transparent but with formulas that last. I follow my instincts - it's all very spontaneous! "

" Go with what you're attracted to. "

" 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. "

" I think there was a freedom in the 1920s and 1930s: a certain liberty and evolution of women. "

" I really wanted to have a different approach of beauty because when I came to America, they were still heavily, heavily plastic. The ads were so heavily retouched. "

" My mother never wore much make-up, and she was a kind of natural beauty; she knew just how to enhance what she had. "

" My mother and my two grandmothers, I was lucky to have three women around me growing up that were very special, very elegant women, very beautiful women. They were my first step into the beauty world, let's say, and then the fashion world, of course. "

" I'm always scared of trends. The runways are always so trend-oriented, but I always feel for the women. The real women that buy cosmetics want to see the trends, but they don't necessarily go for them. And I always encourage women to find what looks best on them. "

" I've always loved the way movie stars in the Forties looked when they were off set. Shot poolside or at their home, they always wore a matte red lipstick with practically no foundation - it was how they wore makeup in real life. "

" It's not that I'm easily shocked. It takes a lot to shock me. And wildness I like. But vulgarity shocks me. "

" My goal was always to make the girl look real and look beautiful. It didn't matter how much makeup. Sometimes it was none at all. "

" 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 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 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! "

" Sometimes people are very not sure of themselves, so you really have to give them that confidence. Even models - they need to warm up sometimes on photo shoots. "

" We are not afraid to be a bit different, to make shades that are bold. "

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

" I think it's important that you know every detail when you open a store, that you pay attention to everything. "

" Wearing colourful eyeliner in a graphic shape is the epitome of make-up as an accessory. "

" When you photograph someone, you have to make them feel good, and you know that they want to look good. It's the same relationship that you have when you apply makeup on somebody. We're almost like shrinks. "

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

" Makeup is very important for a show. It's really an accessory on the runway. You have to be sure that it fits the clothes. "

" I think if you take good care of your skin, you can achieve better make-up. "

" Women are very unpredictable. "