Quotes: Faces.

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Faces
Faces 666 One never really knows one's face and what it reveals. "To have stared at the damned thing [his face] so long and yet still not to know what it reveals is a true tribute to the difficulties of self analysis." Joseph Epstein. “About Face.” 1983. Gross, ed. Essays.

Faces 668 One must read the faces of others for a rough estimate of what to expect. "Yet read faces one must, for however unreliable a method it may be, none other exists for taking at least a rough measure of others." Joseph Epstein. “About Face.” 1983. Gross, ed. Essays.

Faces 669 Faces are most striking when they are animated. "Except in the hands of a photographer who is himself an artist, the camera generally misses what is most interesting in the human face…faces are almost always most striking in animation." Joseph Epstein. “About Face.” 1983. Gross, ed. Essays.

Faces 669 I need to see into eyes and resent sunglasses. "I know I need to look at, if not deeply into, the eyes of someone with whom I am talking…find myself slightly resentful—perhaps irritated comes closer to it—at having to talk to someone wearing sunglasses." Joseph Epstein. “About Face.” 1983. Gross, ed. Essays.

Faces 671 We have always seen that face before. "With only rare exceptions, almost every face one sees one has seen before, if not in life, then in the work of the great painters." Joseph Epstein. “About Face.” 1983. Gross, ed. Essays.

Faces 672 "Love of one’s work tends to make one’s face interesting." Joseph Epstein. “About Face.” 1983. Gross, ed. Essays.

Faces e72 Suffering that one has thought about makes a face interesting. "Suffering, too, confers interest on a face, but only suffering that, if not necessarily understood, has been thought about at length." Joseph Epstein. “About Face.” 1983. Gross, ed. Essays.

Faces 672 "Uninterested people have uninteresting faces." Joseph Epstein. “About Face.” 1983. Gross, ed., Essays.

Faces 672 "Intelligence is more readily gauged in a face than is stupidity." Joseph Epstein. “About Face.” 1983. Gross, ed. Essays.

Faces 672 We read the faces and the emotions they reveal of the people we know. We read [the faces] most subtly of course [of] those people we know most closely: our friends, our known enemies, our families; in the faces of such people we can recognize shifting moods, hurt and pride, all the delicate shades of feeling. Joseph Epstein. “About Face.” 1983. Gross, ed. Essays.

Faces 672 I cannot read or describe my own face. "But of that person we supposedly know most intimately, ourself, the project [of reading the face] remains hopeless; study photographs of ourselves though we may, stare at our selves in mirrors though we do, our self-scrutiny comes to naught; if you don’t believe me, stop a moment and attempt to describe yourself to someone who has never seen you." Joseph Epstein. “About Face.” 1983. Gross, ed. Essays.

Faces670 We read and infer potentialities in the faces of others. "What one reads in the face are potentialities, from which further inferences can be drawn—from conversation, observation, and experience with the person over a period of time." Joseph Epstein. “About Face.” 1983. Gross, ed. Essays.