Body Quote by Charis Wilson

There are cells in the brain that respond to faces. This is one of the reasons that I deal with portraiture. We can learn…

— Eric Kandel

The way someone who's being photographed presents himself to the camera, and the effect of the photographer's response on that presence, is what the…

— Richard Avedon

What I find really interesting is, whenever you see the person who gives you the portrait of yourself, the portrait seems to be a…

— Hilary Hahn

In a portrait, you have room to have a point of view and to be conceptual with a picture. The image may not be…

— Annie Leibovitz

In a portrait, you have room to have a point of view. The image may not be literally what's going on, but it's representative.

— Annie Leibovitz

In a painting no one complains that the subject is posed, but everybody complains about what looks posed in a photograph. Except, I've found…

— John Loengard

A face is a road map of someone's life. Without any need to amplify that or draw attention to it, there's a great deal…

— Chuck Close

I never take a picture of a face because a face is somebody, an arm is not recognizable as somebody. When you take a…

— Annette Messager

The faces people make when they are photographed and the face they have when you draw them are very different.

— Elizabeth Peyton

Who sees the human face correctly: the photographer, the mirror, or the painter?

— Pablo Picasso

The face is a picture of the mind with the eyes as its interpreter.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

It's one thing to make a picture of what a person looks like, it's another thing to make a portrait of who they are.

— Paul Caponigro