Bobbi Brown Quotes

In a pinch, I could always get work in pictures as a makeup artist.

I think probably, the makeup artists don't really know how long it's going to take until they really work with your face and they kind of mold it and build it as they're going along.

I got obsessed with makeup and makeup artists when I was young, with people like Kevyn Aucoin.

I really believe that a writer is someone who has trained their mind to misbehave.

I pay attention to how every makeup artist does everything.

A work of art can start you thinking about some aesthetic or philosophical problem; it can suggest some new method, some fresh approach to fiction.

Perfect isn't normal, nor is it interesting. I have no features without makeup. I am pale. I have blond lashes. You could just paint my face - it's like a blank canvas. It can be great for what I do.

Technically, a makeup artist's canvas is the face and body. The difference is that my painting of makeup is integrated into the painting of the flesh and not on top of it. I think in some ways it is more difficult to expressively deploy makeup.

I have the utmost admiration for makeup artists. It's truly magical what they can accomplish with their materials. The face and the body are really their canvas.

Curiosity about life in all of its aspects, I think, is still the secret of great creative people.

I love the creative outlet of designing, and I love make-up and products and feel like I find so many great products around the world that I want to recreate, so I want to do that or design.

Creativity is as important as literacy and numeracy, and I actually think people understand that creativity is important - they just don't understand what it is.

True originality consists not in a new manner but in a new vision.

I didn't start wearing makeup until I was in art school, and many of the techniques I learned on canvas, I applied to makeup.

My younger daughter really loves makeup. She's quite good artistically. I could see her going into something possibly behind the camera - whether it's in film or still camera for editorial stuff - but she's very taken with makeup, and she's really quite talented for as young as she is.

My lips are a lot thinner than what makeup artists usually create, because they make them almost graphic.

If you ask me, I think knowledge is power and and being able to do your own makeup, or someone else's makeup, is power in itself.

I tend to gravitate toward people who are a bit more eccentric and creative and artistic in some ways. And I like bringing disparate kinds of creative people together to create some great work, even to share points of view on a new direction.

I think, being surrounded by professional makeup artists and hairdressers, you pick up little tips and trends.

I'm aware of the other drag artists with makeup lines, and I celebrate them. The pie is big and there's room for everybody.

I just try to go outside the box. In fact, I go outside the box so much I go... 'What box!'

I've always sort of marveled at our ability to chat and match, because of, I come, honestly I think of myself of as a little bit of hack, and think like that, and I think of her [Mia Michaels] as an artist.

Traditionally, photography has dealt with recording the world as it is found. Before photography appeared the fine artists of the time, the painters and sculptors, concerned themselves with rendering reality with as much likeness as their skill enabled. Photography, however, made artistic reality much more available, more quickly and on a much broader scale.

Think about what artists, novelists and poets have in common: the ability to engage in metaphorical thinking, linking seemingly unrelated ideas, such as, 'It is the east, and Juliet is the Sun.'

As an artist, you have the job of working out whatever is given you to work out.