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" 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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" It really has stayed practically the same. It wasn't like I used to do wild punk make-up: no, I always had the same vision. "

" 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. "

" It's very refreshing to go away and take a break, to clear your head, and just get into something else. "

" 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 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. "

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

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

" Looking at flowers, simple things in life. I don't need to look at gold and a castle; sometimes its very simple things that are very beautiful. I am keeping my eyes fresh to find beauty in many places, and in gold, too, sometimes! "

" 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. "

" Go with what you're attracted to. "

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

" 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. "

" You are born with this love; fashion and beauty are a part of who I am. "

" It was the early Seventies, and I discovered makeup by going through my mother's fashion magazines. I fell in love with the photos, the models, the fashion. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" My interpretation of the word 'ugly'... I like ugly beauty. That can happen. In France, we have phrase 'jolie laide.' We like certain women who are not pretty or cute - it's the opposite in France of pretty. It's more strange and interesting. "

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

" Women don't want to feel like they're wearing makeup. I hope I was partly responsible for that. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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! "