20 Kevyn Aucoin Quotes for You to Enjoy

Kevyn Aucoin

American Artist

Born: Feb 14, 1962

Died: May 7, 2002

Beauty Life Love Think World You

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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. Kevyn Aucoin

Inspirational Happiness Life Today Freedom Morning Humanity Joy Wake Up Mistakes Pain Every Negativity Embrace Able Feel Make Continue Wake Up Deny Being Choices Choose

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. Kevyn Aucoin

You Yourself World Fear Path Hatred Power Others Everything Destroy Emotion Longer Adverse Underestimated Most Knowing Overlooked Truly Debilitating Effects Breeds Keep Ever

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. Kevyn Aucoin

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. Kevyn Aucoin

Life Saying Good You Change Learning Yourself World Will First Big Change The World Good Laugh Otherwise Worst Laugh About Could Never Step Putting Mess Make First Step Makeup Discovered May Your Even Things

Beauty has a lot to do with character. Kevyn Aucoin

Character Beauty Lot

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. Kevyn Aucoin

Me People Try First Beauty Find Hoping See Could Through First Place Makeup Doing Began Place Themselves Helping Helping People Why

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

Forgiveness Beauty Never Soon Forgiven Going Realized

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

Success Travel Rather Road Failures Huge Than Middle

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. Kevyn Aucoin

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. Kevyn Aucoin

Life Love Time Perseverance Women World Compassion Men Beginning Entire Take Taken Over Since Mission Force Help Many Route

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

Death Me Ugly Kids Locker Threats Threw Rocks Left

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. Kevyn Aucoin

Me Creative Vision Father Three Become Down Live Back Spend Everything Approval Months Paper Drawing Would Criticized Something Brutal He Look Him Got Were His Up Did Quite Just Wanted Anything Really Show Fights Who

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. Kevyn Aucoin

Advice Say Give Never Because Always End-All Authority Use

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

Girl Also Boy Did Little Regular Who Enjoyed Things

I'm very passionate about what I do. Kevyn Aucoin

About Passionate Very

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

Life Love Time Lost Drawings Absolutely Still Did Stood

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

Fashion World Responsibility Collective Think Lies More Variety Demand Fashion World

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