Richard Phillips Quotes

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 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.

I'm a super creative person and have always loved drawing and painting since I was super young, but makeup was a new avenue for me.

I love painting. I went to college in fine arts, and I still do it all the time.

To paint is the most terrific thing that there is, but to do it well is very difficult.

I definitely do not think of makeup as, like, a validation type thing. For me, it's a creative outlet and an art form. It's not like, 'Oh my God, I need to feel pretty.' It's like, 'This is so cool. I just created art on my face.

I am pretty bad at doing my makeup myself, so these days, I am learning from a makeup artist. I treat my face as a sketchbook and am gradually trying things that I learned from the artist.

Going to beauty school and art school in Romania helped me to think of why we use makeup, and it's exactly how you do portrait. You use pencil to make a 3D effect. Makeup is the same... You are able to create an illusion of perfection and balancing proportion.

I've been painting since I was a kid.

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.

I painted. I wanted to be a painter. I sang.

I kind of do the drawing with the painting in mind, but it's very hard to guess at a size or a color and all the colors around it and what it will really look like.

I believe the reason I love painting so much is that it forces one to be objective.

I still love a lot of the guys who just paint.

Makeup is not a mask that covers up your beauty; it's a weapon that helps you express who you are from the inside.

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.

Oh, I paint all the time.

I'm a pretty good drawer. I have trouble painting because you literally have to wait for the paint to dry. I'm disciplined, but I'm not patient.

With wearing makeup a part of my job as a model, one might think I'd get tired of it, but I absolutely love it.

Don't get me wrong - I'm not against makeup. If I could manage looking like 'me' in a way that also read as tastefully, invisibly airbrushed, I'd sign up for that faster than you could choose a filter to do it for me.

Blushes are fun. I like to do circles - like a Caravaggio painting almost, or Victorian looking.

I know how to paint... In a way there is a boredom there because a lot of the magic is gone.

I paint, and painting gives me my much needed break from my routine. Painting was a subject in my school, and I developed a liking for the lines and colours and started practising in my free time. It helps me de-stress amidst my hectic shooting schedules.

I am really fond of drawing, painting mehendi, so I would draw mehendi on a groom's hand and earn money.

Whenever I do someone's portrait, I'm trying to locate the photo in the lens while reaching into that person psychologically. There's the magic! I don't always achieve it. It's a hit or a miss!