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" I would find myself in these photo shoots with models and makeup, and I got swept up in it all. "

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" 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. "

" Women are very unpredictable. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" We love those under-eye circles. It's real life. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I photographed Alek Wek. She was amazing, and nobody knew about her then. It was a really strong photograph of her. "

" I remember this time I worked with Linda Evangelista on a shoot for Richard Avedon. I just put grease on her face, and it was beautiful. "

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

" You create the color first, and then the name that fits. It depends - there are no rules. You watch a fabulous old movie, and you suddenly get inspired by it to create a lipstick shade, or you walk through a gorgeous garden and find the most beautiful flower shade for an eye shadow, and then you name it. "

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

" I loved working with Avedon. "

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

" I've seen makeup destroy people and make them look bad if it's badly done. "

" 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 think everyone deserves to look better and to look good. "

" Makeup can make a woman look more beautiful at every age. "

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

" I was spoiled growing up in the 1970s because magazines were publishing the photographs of Helmut Newton and Guy Bourdin without compromise. You really felt that sense of freedom through their images. "

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

" 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 not an easily depressed person. "

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

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

" 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. "

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