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

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

" 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. "

" My mother hated foundation; she hated having a mask on her face - and she pushed me to build my own vision and concept of beauty for women. "

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

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

" 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 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. "

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

" I met Iman and Jerry Hall and all those girls in the late Seventies right when I started working at the fashion shows in Paris as an assistant. "

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

" It's one thing to read about how makeup is applied. It's another thing altogether to watch it being put on. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" There is a tendency to feature more actresses on covers, but I'm a big model lover. I grew up watching these models, and they gave me the wish, the need, to work in the fashion industry. I loved watching them - their beauty, the way they worked in front of the camera and that power of transformation, especially in the Seventies. "

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

" 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 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. "

" 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! "