Facial Representation Quotes

A man sets himself the task of portraying the world. Shortly before he dies he discovers that this patient labyrinth of lines is a drawing of his own face.

The portrait of a person is one of the most difficult things to do. It means you must almost bring the presence of that person photographed to other people in such a way that they don't have to know that person personally, but that they are still confronted with a human being that they won't forget. That's a portrait.

Because the mask is your face, the face is a mask, so I'm thinking of the face as a mask because of the way I see faces is coming from an African vision of the mask which is the thing that we carry around with us, it is our presentation, it's our front, it's our face.

A portrait is a painting with something wrong with the mouth.

I do mostly portraits. So it's just people's faces, not really any ideas.

The masks, for us, are more of a way to present ourselves live, you know?

Another person tattooed my face on their calf. When they tense, the face moves! That is messed up.

I shall praise those faces which seem to project out of the picture as though they were sculptured, and I shall censure those faces in which I see no art but that of outline.

A man finds room in the few square inches of the face for the traits of all his ancestors; for the expression of all his history, and his wants.

A competent portraitist knows how to imply the profile in the full face.