Human Faces Quotes

I'm an odd portrait painter in that I'm not just interested in human faces. I consider almost all of my paintings to be portraits.

Faces are the most interesting things we see

A man cannot paint portraits till he has seen faces.

Human faces are such a world!

For the camera, particularly, I feel like - I think that, as human faces become older, they become more interesting.

My mirror probes down to the heart. I write words on the forehead and around the corners of the mouth. My human faces are truer than the real ones.

It is the common wonder of all men, how among so many million faces, there should be none alike.

I just love human emotion and faces.

It is well-known that there are many faces in the world over the finishing of which nature did not take much trouble, did not employ any fine tools such as files, gimlets, and so on, but simply hacked them out with round strokes: one chop-a nose appears; another chop-lips appear; eyes are scooped out with a big drill; and she lets it go into the world rough-hewn, saing: "ALIVE!

Humans are generally much trickier to draw because we're so used to looking at and analyzing human faces. The slightest tweak makes a huge difference in how we perceive that character.