"The face is not the combination of a nose, a forehead, or two eyes. It is certainly all of these, yet it achieves the meaning of a face through the new dimension it opens up in the perception of being. Through the face, being is no longer simply enclosed in its form and offered to the hand. Instead, it is open, it communicates in depth, and in this openness, it presents itself in some way personally". (E. Lévinas)