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" When I was a kid, I loved photography, and I loved makeup. "

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

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

" Go with what you're attracted to. "

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

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

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

" I always had a vision about beauty in general, so probably that's what really drove me into that direction of creating a makeup brand. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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 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. "

" I'm not an easily depressed person. "

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" I'm very nostalgic - and I don't care. "

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

" 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. "

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

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" 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'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 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. "

" Women are very unpredictable. "