Contemplation Quote by Henri Matisse

If the face appears, the picture is inevitably a portrait and the expression of the face will dictate the viewer's response to the body.

— Charis Wilson

Sometimes small incidents, rather than glorious exploits, give us the best evidence of character. So, as portrait painters are more exact in doing the…

— Plutarch

That moment when the person actually dictates the way I do the portrait is when the intimacy arrives.

— Francesco Clemente

Do portraits of people in familiar and typical attitudes, above all give to their face the same choice of expression that one gives to…

— Edgar Degas

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

I'm afraid I tend to be thinking about things and not paying sufficient attention to one's posture, deportment and general cast of face.

— Jeremy Paxman

Faces in the everyday impress us as hives of subtlety. That impression must be sharpened in photography, which discloses only a microsecond of the…

— Max Kozloff

“Beyond these universal expressions of emotion, there are hundreds of variations which are often a matter of choice, whether consciously or subconsciously. Most every…

— Susan C. Young

When you photograph a face . . .you photograph the soul behind it.

— Jean-Luc Godard

I fashion the expression of my face, as accurately as possible, in accordance with the expression of his, and then wait to see what…

— Edgar Allan Poe

The face is the soul of the body.

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

When I draw a character, very often as I'm doing a face, my face mirrors the expression.

— Matthew Ashford