Human Faces Quotes

• There's nothing more interesting than the landscape of the human face.

  Irvin Kershner

  Interesting, Landscape, Faces

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The serial number of a human specimen is the face, that accidental and unrepeatable combination of features. It reflects neither character nor soul, nor what we call the self. The face is only the serial number of a specimen

  Milan Kundera

  Character, Self, Numbers

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• There are quantities of human beings, but there are many more faces, for each person has several.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Faces, Humans, Persons

  Rainer Maria Rilke (1984). “Prose and poetry”, Burns & Oates

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• In all things that live there are certain irregularities, and deficiencies which are not only signs of life, but sources of beauty. No human face is exactly the same in its lines on each side, no leaf perfect in its lobes, no branch in its symmetry.

  John Ruskin

  Beauty, Perfect, Branches

  John Ruskin (1854). “On the nature of Gothic architecture: and herein of the true functions of the workman in art. Being the greater part of the 6th chapter of the 2nd vol. of 'Stones of Venice'. [48 p.].”, p.14

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• The human face is the organic seat of beauty.... It is the register of value in development, a record of Experience, whose legitimate office is to perfect the life, a legible language to those who will study it, of the majestic mistress, the soul.

  Eliza Farnham

  Perfect, Office, Soul

  Eliza Wood Farnham (1864). “Woman and Her Era”, p.107

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• If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face - forever.

  George Orwell

  Time, Freedom, Future

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

  Pablo Picasso

  Photography, Art, Mirrors

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• More was revealed in a human face than a human being can bear face to face.

  Ken Kesey

  Faces, Bears, Humans

  Ken Kesey (2002). “One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest”, p.7, Penguin

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• Faith sees God's face in every human face.

  Catherine Doherty

  Faces, Humans

  Catherine de Hueck Doherty, Mary Achterhoff (1992). “Grace in every season: through the year with Catherine Doherty : daily reflections”, Servant Pubns

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• Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face.

  Victor Hugo

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

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

  Edward Steichen

  Photography, Feelings, Faces

  "To Catch the Instant", Time Magazine, April 7, 1961.

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• How rich is anyone who can simply see human faces.

  Corrie Ten Boom

  Faces, Rich, Humans

  Corrie ten Boom, Elizabeth Sherrill, John Sherrill (2006). “The Hiding Place”, p.165, Chosen Books

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• Contain all human faces in your own without any judgment of them

  Rumi

  Faces, Judgment, Humans

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• Very early in life, I fell in love with the landscape of the human face, where all the emotional states of life are to be found.

  Burton Silverman

  Emotional, Landscape, Faces

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• We can see nothing whatever of the soul unless it is visible in the expression of the countenance; one might call the faces at a large assembly of people a history of the human soul written in a kind of Chinese ideograms.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Expression, People, Soul

  "Aphorisms". Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook B 11, 1799.

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• Photography is a major force in explaining man to man.

  Edward Steichen

  Photography, Men, Records

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• The greatest location in the world is the human face.

  John Cassavetes

  World, Location, Faces

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• The human face is the most deeply ingrained image in our brains. It is the two dots and a dash we connect with as babies. It is the focus of our attention in our relationships with each other. The face and the human figure express all we are. Everything else - architecture, art, even landscape - we usually understand in relation to us.

  Dave McKean

  Baby, Art, Two

  Source: thequietus.com

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• The human face does not always reflect the beauty that may repose in the soul.

  Frank Delaney

  Soul, Doe, May

  Frank Delaney (2009). “Shannon: A Novel of Ireland”, p.122, Random House

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• Thus with the year
  Seasons return, but not to me returns
  Day, or the sweet approach of ev'n or morn,
  Or sight of vernal bloom, or summer's rose,
  Or flocks, or herds, or human face divine.

  John Milton

  Summer, Sweet, Flower

  'Paradise Lost' (1667) bk. 3, l. 37

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• Human faces are such a world!

  Henri Cartier-Bresson

  Humanity, World, Faces

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• The most entertaining surface on earth is the human face.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Earth, Faces, Surface

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• This fascination with the human face has never left me... Every face I see seems to hide and sometimes, fleetingly, to reveal the mystery of another human being... Capturing this revelation became the goal and passion of my life.

  Philippe Halsman

  Passion, Goal, Fascination

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• We're not going to get the jack-booted thugs stomping on a human face that you get in '1984' but we might get the 'Brave New World' where the biggest problem there is how to deal with the fact that everyone is so happy...[W]hat we're going to get is a nanny-type of fascism, if we get one at all...[S]imply because the nanny-state wants to hug you doesn't mean it's not tyrannical if you don't want to be hugged.

  Jonah

  Mean, Brave New World, Thug

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• You can domesticate your body, but you can't domesticate your face - even by having a lift or having your nose bobbed. A face bears the reflection of our nature, which in the beginning is veiled by the attractiveness of youth. But as soon as youth begins to go, everything written on the face starts to come to the surface, and pretty soon it's engraved there. No landscape can equal a human face that's been molded by its own owner.

  Francoise Giroud

  Nature, Reflection, Landscape

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