Black and white photography Quote by Margaret Bourke-White

The human face is the subtle yet visual autobiography of each person,

— John O'Donohue

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

Beautiful faces are those that wear whole-souled honesty printed there.

— Ellen Palmer Allerton

Sensitive people faced with the prospect of a camera portrait put on a face they think is one they would like to show the…

— Irving Penn

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

— Elizabeth Peyton

Faces are as legible as books, only with these circumstances to recommend them to our perusal, that they are read in much less time,…

— Johann Kaspar Lavater

“Faces have a near-unwatchable intimacy, particularly in a world in which everything perishes in the end. It is difficult to look as we choose,…

— Kyo Maclear

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

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

Photography records the gamut of feelings written on the human face.

— Edward Steichen

Don’t you think every face tells its own story? Like a book? More like a poem. If you study it long enough, you’ll soon…

— Gail Tsukiyama

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