'The series ‘Noses & Ears, Etc.’ had its inception when I was a painter in the mid-50s. I was immersed in thinking about totality (what is a whole and what is a part?)...To represent people only by an ear and/or nose became for me another way of reducing human identity to a minimum. Faces become clichés like anything else, so viewing people only by ears and/or nose might enable the viewer to see afresh.' - John Baldessari