Top 52 Quotes & Sayings by Kevyn Aucoin

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Last updated on December 21, 2024.

Kevyn James Aucoin was an American make-up artist, photographer and author. In the 1990s, Aucoin was wholly responsible for the "sculpted" look of many celebrities and top models, including Whitney Houston, Cher, Madonna, Cindy Crawford, Liza Minnelli, Courtney Love, Tina Turner, Janet Jackson, Naomi Campbell, Tori Amos, and Vanessa Williams. He authored several industry-defining books with makeup techniques including facial contouring, which was relatively unknown in popular culture at the time, but pioneered and used in drag culture and stage makeup for decades prior. Aucoin, often noted as being decades ahead of his contemporaries, is considered to be one of greatest make-up artists of the modern age.

American - Artist | February 14, 1962 - May 7, 2002

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Fear is the most debilitating emotion in the world, and it can keep you from ever truly knowing yourself and others - its adverse effects can no longer be overlooked or underestimated. Fear breeds hatred, and hatred has the power to destroy everything in its path.

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I'd rather have huge success and huge failures than travel in the middle of the road.

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I also have this incredible love for women.

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The faces I see in the modeling industry can get dull.

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I think the responsibility lies with the fashion world as a collective. We have to demand more variety.

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My entire mission in life is to help women take over the world. Not by force (the route so many men have taken since the beginning of time), but with compassion, perseverance, and love.

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Perfection is boring. If a face doesn't have mistakes, it's nothing.

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Life is too short to spend hoping that the perfectly arched eyebrow or hottest new lip shade will mask an ugly heart.

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Yes, but everyone is beautiful to someone.

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I spent much of my life hiding.

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Trying to conceal the fact that I was a gay, effeminate, hyperactive, adopted child with a serious lisp in southern Louisiana would have been like trying to hide Dolly Parton in a string bikini!

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When I was growing up, the men in my life were abusive; women were the ones I ran to for comfort.

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Fights with my father were really quite brutal. I would not live his vision. I would not become who he wanted me to be. Everything I did was criticized. I would spend three months drawing something and show him, and he would look up from his paper and just look back down. I got no approval from him for anything I did that was creative.

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Kids threw rocks at me, told me I was ugly and left death threats in my locker.

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Today I see beauty everywhere I go, in every face I see, in every single soul.

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There are two types of people in the world: people who are passionate about things, and people who've had their passion punched, beaten, or whatever out of them.

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I didn't know what gay was. There was no such thing when I was growing up. I knew I had crushes on boys, but I didn't think there was anything wrong with that until I started to hear about it from the other kids in school.

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I made a crash landing here on Earth on February 14, 1962, in the Shreveport Catholic Charities Home for un-wed mothers. The infamous Bonnie and Clyde lost their lives just miles from where I was born. Like outlaws ourselves, my birth mother and I were on the run from the day she found out I was part of her.

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It's our hearts and brains that we should exercise more often. You can put on all the makeup you want, but it won't make your soul pretty.

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While traveling around the world, I've had the opportunity to work with every living beauty icon. I've learned to appreciate idiosyncrasy. The fact is, there is really no such thing as 'normal' - everybody's different, and that is the essence of their beauty.

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I'm not saying that putting on makeup will change the world or even your life, but it can be a first step in learning things about yourself you may never have discovered otherwise. At worst, you could make a big mess and have a good laugh.

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Beauty has a lot to do with character.

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Today I choose life. Every morning when I wake up I can choose joy, happiness, negativity, pain... To feel the freedom that comes from being able to continue to make mistakes and choices - today I choose to feel life, not to deny my humanity but embrace it.

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I'm very passionate about what I do.

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Beauty is about perception, not about make-up. I think the beginning of all beauty is knowing and liking oneself. You can't put on make-up, or dress yourself, or do you hair with any sort of fun or joy if you're doing it from a position of correction.

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I don't use 'always do this,' 'never say that' and I never give advice because I'm not the end-all, be-all authority.

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I'm going to insult a whole industry here, but it seems like TV is for people who can't do film. I'm not talking about actresses; I'm talking about lighting people. Lighting on TV is just so... it's sinful, it really is.

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Soon I realized that if beauty equalled forgiveness, I was never going to be forgiven.

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That's why I began doing makeup in the first place: I was hoping that through helping people see the beauty in themselves, I could try and find it in me.

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I was a regular little boy who also enjoyed things that girls did.

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I was absolutely lost in love and life when I did my drawings. Time stood still.

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Another thing that's pathetic is this rule that you have to look ugly to get respect as an actress. Jessica Lange had to make herself look really bad to prove that she had amazing talent.

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Growing up, my ideals were Barbra Streisand, Cher, and my mom.

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Audrey had an angelic quality about her. She didn't act like she was better than everyone, she just had a presence, an energy, a sort of light coming from within her that was overwhelming.

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Beauty might bring happiness, but happiness always brings beauty.

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This reference to the Scots side of her ancestry is the first of two visual explorations into Tori Amos's diverse cultural past. As is the case for many of us, Tori's ancestry is a mix of races and religions, philosophies and professions, fortunes and foibles. What to some may seem like a family tree grown wild and untamed is actually a mighty oak that has weathered life's many storms and can still put out a rare and beautiful blossom like Tori.

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For me, beauty is synonymous with uniqueness . . . perfection is mundane, boring, and emotionless. It is by celebrating the differences in others that we can begin to accept our own individuality.

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The fact is, there really is no such thing as 'normal' - everybody's different, and that is the essence of their beauty

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I understood early that beauty was power.

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No amount of makeup can mask an ugly heart.

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I never went wrong by being myself.

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Beauty is about perception, not about make-up. I think the beginning of all beauty is knowing and liking oneself.

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Everyone is beautiful to someone.

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If you want to look your best, be creative, try some new ideas, and have fun doing it.

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Makeup should be fun, not fascist.

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Glamour is not self-conscious; it’s not trying really hard. It’s just expressing your own truth. I think that’s what the essence of glamour really is—expressing your uniqueness.

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There are no rules when it comes to makeup!

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The future belongs to thouse with open minds aand open hearts, who can appreciate beauty in all it's forms.

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Today I choose to feel life, not to deny my humanity but embrace it.

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Today I see beauty everywhere I go, in every face I see, in every single soul, and sometimes even in myself.

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It is the free spirited men and women that we most admire and often envy - those individuals who dare to be themselves.

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Beauty is about perception, not about make-up.