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" 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. "

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" Some people put a lot of fuss around them. I'm not an entertainer. Let's not get things confused. "

" Transparency is more sexy than a full, pancake finish. "

" The '80s and '90s were the greatest time to be a makeup artist. "

" Women are very unpredictable. "

" Women have to find their own personality, their own style, and what suits them the best. "

" I thought make-up was a very sensual thing. "

" 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. "

" 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 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. "

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

" Working on fashion shows, you work with the designer and try to read his brain - what was in the creative process, what images did he have in his head? "

" 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'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. "

" There was a time when you would dream about, say, movie stars. Now, you virtually follow them into their bathroom when they're going to the loo. "

" In this world, you do your job, a good job, and that's what counts. "

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

" Sometimes I'm attracted to more odd girls with stronger faces and features or a softer beauty with a lot of character. "

" It was never in my mind to be famous. "

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

" In a lot of cases, makeup is a fantastic help, and that's why women love makeup in general. It's a fantastic way to help somebody look great. It's not the only way, of course, but it's a major accessory, along with hair, clothes, lighting, all those things. "

" Women are being more experimental with eye color. "

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

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

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

" You can look glamorous even if you're a housewife, any job you have. "

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

" Was I a businessman to start with? I'm not sure. I mean, that comes slowly, when you start having the products out. But at the same time, I was very determined. I knew that I had to make it work. I had no choice. "

" It's more fun to have a name rather than a number. I think this gives our products a personality. I get the names from literature, movies, opera, traveling, nature, poetry, sometimes even the street. I keep a small book that I write in. I wake up in the middle of the night and jot down a name for a lipstick or an eyeshadow. "

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