Francois Nars Quotes
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I found my style and how I like to do makeup from trying and failing and trying and failing again, and unfortunately, I had to do it publicly to figure it out.
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I worked a little as a messenger on a bicycle and then decided to study photography and film.
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Doing voices in animated movies has been one of my dreams. You get to go and act, and you don't have to put on makeup.
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Photography, alone of the arts, seems perfected to serve the desire humans have for a moment - this very moment - to stay.
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When the women's movement started in the 1960s, there was a vision of a future where women didn't wear makeup or worry about how their hair looked, and everybody wore sensible, comfortable clothes. It ran into an absolute brick wall.
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There is no question that photography has played a major role in the environmental movement.
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At a shoot, I'm really aware of everything. When they do makeup, sometimes I can't see what they're doing, but I can feel it. I know what I look like, even when I can't see what they've done. I know how to compose myself.
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It's really easy with makeup to look like you're trying too hard, like a clown. That's not what you want!
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I like to make the best of what I have. I'm not a supermodel, clearly. I'm not a makeup artist. I'm a real woman.
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When I was five, I discovered a secret box that contained Mummy's stage makeup. It was like finding buried treasure. I tried the rouge, the eye shadow, the lipstick. But I couldn't get the rouge off. Mummy spanked me terribly.
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My work ethic I learned at Miami High, and I have taken that with me.
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My interest in architecture has always been sculptural. Most of my photography is of architecture.
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Photography is about finding out what can happen in the frame. When you put four edges around some facts, you change those facts.
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The advent of the digital age and the immediacy and convenience of digital video and photography allows people to become an integral part of the feedback loop which actively shapes the content we are fed.
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There's no recovery on Main Street, I can tell you that for sure. And in a re - in an economy like this, we don't need to be raising anybody's taxes.
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If I have a day off, I'll get up at three in the afternoon and make some noodles. I fix my makeup and then party until 5 A.M.
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I'm constantly working on these edges of photography, either to employ so much information or reduce information to the point of collapse.
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Today, I am no longer concerned with photography as an art form. I believe it is potentially the best medium for explaining man to himself and his fellow man.
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Pure photography allows us to create portraits which render their subjects with absolute truth, truth both physical and psychological. That is the principal which provided my starting point, once I had said to myself that if we can create portraits of subjects that are true, we thereby in effect create a mirror of the times in which those subjects live.
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Life is like photography. You need the negatives to develop.
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It's sad to be constantly judged for every move you make after your first success. If you wear your hair differently, you have changed.
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If you don't know where you make your mistakes, that's your worst mistake: not knowing where your mistakes are at.
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I guess I've shot about 40,000 negatives and of these I have about 800 pictures I like.
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When I was a kid, I loved photography, and I loved makeup.
