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1219 Artist Quotes

If I want to do a smoky eye, I tend to focus more on the eyeshadow versus the eyeliner to avoid looking like a Duran Duran album cover. And if I do a smoky eye, I'll probably do a nude lipstick. I tend to fluctuate between reds and nudes.

Album Album Cover Avoid Between
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Music has influenced everything from my tattooing to how I talk to how I walk, I guess. I was classically trained in piano since I was 6. Then in my teens, my older sister introduced me to Metallica. It was all over. I had a mohawk soon after that.

After Everything Guess Had
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I never let people see me without makeup. And it's not an insecurity thing. The perk of being a girl is being able to wear makeup and dress up. It's another artistic outlet. And the 45 minutes it takes me to get ready... is very therapeutic for me. It's hard to start my day without that.

Able Another Artistic Being
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I shop everywhere from Maxfield to antique stores. I love Alexander McQueen and Vivienne Westwood, and I love vintage. Golyester has the best selection of mint things and dead stock. I collect 1940s to 1970s platform shoes, and that's where I got a few of my best ones.

1940s 1970s Alexander Antique
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I think a lot of women want to be, like... 'I'm cool with stretch marks and my body changing.' To be honest, I thought I'd be a lot cooler with it, but I'm struggling with my weight gain. I know I'm healthy... but I was expecting to not be as affected by it... I'm self-conscious.

Affected Body Changing Cool
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I don't care what people think about me. When I look in the mirror, I wanna like what I see.
About Care Don't Care I See
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I'm a stickler when it comes to every aspect of my line. My development team probably hates working with me sometimes... but in a good way. I think that I push them to a certain degree to create something that's going to withstand the test of time.

Aspect Certain Certain Degree Create
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I like dramatic and crazy, weird, ridiculous eyebrows but I know the majority of people don't do their brows like me.

Brow Crazy Dramatic Eyebrows
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The idea of bringing color into the Super Brow collection was really inspired by seeing all our fans and followers posting colorful eyebrow pictures using our liquid lipsticks. I think that's really cool because you know, the formula, although it's not designed for the eye, it can work on an eyebrow.

Although Because Bringing Brow
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The decision to make Kat Von D Beauty cruelty-free was easy and simple. Sure, my products won't sell in China because of my decision, but if it spares an innocent animal from a life of torture, that is completely worth it in my book.

Animal Beauty Because Book
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Years of cultural programming have taught us to love some animals while eating others, when in all reality, all animals are sentient beings with the capacity to feel, both physically and emotionally. Every day, I have the choice to live a life of compassion that not only saves animals but helps the environment.

Animals Beings Both Capacity
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Natacha Marro has always been a favorite shoe designer, and now she has started offering vegan options in her collection, which is brilliant! As for clothing, I have discovered tons of great vegan independent designers on Etsy!

Always Been Brilliant Clothing
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My pro program is going to reach out to more than just the people who have had the luxury of going to makeup school. Personally, when I was a kid, I couldn't afford that. That doesn't mean that they can't be at a professional level.

Afford Going Had Just
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I don't care how many followers you have, but if you're executing amazing makeup, and you're working day to day in the makeup world and really changing the makeup world, to me that qualifies as a pro.

Amazing Care Changing Day
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I feel like most people know that I'm a vegan, and I'm a pretty vocal animal activist. Everything and anything I do, I just kind of use it as a vehicle to be able to send out the message.

Able Activist Animal Anything
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I've always viewed makeup as the gateway drug to animal activism. It really doesn't require any sacrificing or changing anything other than just replacing products that were once used to torture animals with ones that perform just as well and are cruelty-free.

Activism Always Animal Animals
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Sephora has always been the best, in the sense that they love me for me and that they let me be me. That's the coolest part. I think that's why the products are great - because there's a sincerity and authenticity.

Always Authenticity Because Been
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Interaction with fans is super important to me. I have the best fans ever. They're always the most creatively charged people. I've saved every single piece of fan mail that I've ever gotten. We have an archive of it and stuff. I think if I can inspire that, then it's like my job is done.

Always Best Charged Creatively
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When I was a kid, to me, all women that I think were beautiful always tend to be ethnic of some sort. To be honest I think it's the eyebrows - the powerful, strong eyebrows.

All Women Always Beautiful Ethnic
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I try my best to try to respond to people, especially through Twitter.
Best People Respond Through
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The artwork on my packaging was something I painstakingly micro-managed - for example, I treat it like a tattoo, taking into consideration the muscle structure and seeing were the line lands on the existing body.

Artwork Body Consideration Example
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If you give me an eyeliner, I can create 40 looks with that - whether it's liquid or pencil.

Create Give Give Me I Can
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We have been reformulating anything that had carmine in the past, and if we can't reformulate, we just throw them out. I can live without a purple eye shadow. It's fine.

Anything Been Eye Fine
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I knew the minute we announced our pregnancy that we would be bombarded with unsolicited advice. Some good and some questionable - unsolicited none the less.

Advice Announced Bombarded Good
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My own father flipped out on me when I told him we decided to ditch our doctor and go with a midwife instead.

Decided Ditch Doctor Father
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I already know what it's like to make life choices that are not the same as the majority.
Choices Know Life Like
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The funny thing is that I've known since I was 7 years old that I was never going to have kids. I always imagined myself as this worldly, traveling gypsy lady.

Always Funny Funny Thing Going
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I feel like Too Faced has always followed the same ethics as Kat Von D Beauty. They've been cruelty-free and really vocal advocates for anti-animal cruelty, and that's something that's such a deal breaker for me.

Advocate Always Beauty Been
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People love our triple-milled, super-high-pigmented soft supermatte formulas.

Formulas Love Our People
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I think Too Faced is the yin to my yang. When you look at Kat Von D beauty and Too Faced and put them together, they look like complete opposites, but there are tons of similarities.

Beauty Complete Faced I Think
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I love how me deciding to not continue doing 'LA Ink' turns into being 'cancelled.'

Being Cancelled Continue Deciding
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As grateful as I am to have been a part of a show like 'LA Ink,' I'm ready to end this chapter and want to focus on other projects now.

Am Been Chapter End
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You don't have to get married and have a family, like a lot of women try, to live the American Dream. There's nothing wrong if you're in your 40s and don't have kids and are president of your own company.

American American Dream Company Dream
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I've always been a huge 'Divine' fan. He was so iconic and so ground-breaking, especially for the time that he was around, because he was not only breaking barriers in the regular world, just being openly gay, but in the drag world as well.

Always Around Barriers Because
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Life being what it is, one dreams of revenge.

Being Dreams Life Revenge
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Many excellent cooks are spoilt by going into the arts.

Arts Cooks Excellent Going
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Concentrate your strengths against your competitor's relative weaknesses.

Against Competitor Concentrate Relative
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People responded to my work because I was doing something that hadn’t been done before.

People Work Doing Something
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Primarily, art is about humanism, fundamental human values, fundamental liberal values.

Primarily Humanism Fundamental
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The art I do is an expression of who I am, what my history is, and the issues that bother me in terms of discrimination and racism.

Expression Issues Terms Racism
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All artists need to have a sense of curiosity, and if you are not a curious person, then you cannot be an artist.

All artist Curiosity Person
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What a creative person would do is to open the public to new possibilities, what they don’t know they want yet.

Creative person New possibilities
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You want people to look at the work and engage with it, so you have to find the best way to do that.

People Work Engage Best way
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I enjoy making my work and I enjoy making colour. Primarily, I make the work for myself first, and if other people like the work then that’s fine.

My work Colour Primarily
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There are always flowers for those who want to see them.

Always flowers Want See
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I don't paint things. I only paint the difference between things

Paint things Difference between
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An artist must never be a prisoner. Prisoner? An artist should never be a prisoner of himself, prisoner of style, prisoner of reputation, prisoner of success, etc

An artist Prisoner
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With color one obtains an energy that seems to stem from witchcraft
Color Obtains Stem Witchcraft
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Drawing is like making an expressive gesture with the advantage of permanence.

Drawing Making Expressive gesture Permanence
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I do not literally paint that table, but the emotion it produces upon me.
Literally paint Emotion Produce
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