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

" In America, when I first came here, they were used to wearing more make-up - thicker foundation, more Max Factor, that sort of thing. But you have to know who you are and what you look like: if you know yourself a little bit, you don't need to follow trends. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" Women are very unpredictable. "

" 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. "

" 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? "

" It's very hard for me to photograph someone when I'm not attracted by who they are. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I was a very lucky child because at the age of 16, 17 years old, my parents would buy me clothes from Yves Saint Laurent, which was an incredible luxury at the time, but I was attracted to that whole world. I had a pretty nice little wardrobe by the age of 17. "

" 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. "

" I'm not an easily depressed person. "

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

" I never thought make-up was like brain surgery. "

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

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

" 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! "

" 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 love the architecture magazines and all of the French magazines for decoration or whatever. I end up enjoying them more sometimes than the fashion magazines. "

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

" I'm not so interested in perfect, plastic beauty, and I think it translates in the girls I've shot over the years for Nars, from Guinevere to Iris to Mariacarla. I love those girls. I love the more interesting faces, with maybe a strange nose, not just the Texan blonde. By picking those girls, I think it's changed what I've seen in other campaigns. "