Black And White Picture Quotes

#1. That sounded like something Mother would say, throwing color onto a black-and-white picture.

Ruta Sepetys

#2. Some have said that if you take a great picture in color and take away the color, you'll have a great black-and-white picture. But if you're shooting something about color and you take away the color, you'll have nothing.

Jay Maisel

#3. Even in broad daylight, he was so sallow, he looked like a black-and-white picture pasted into a Kodachrome world. At night, he was barely even visible.

C.D. Reiss

#4. My computer background is a black and white picture I took of the Niteroi Contemporary Art Museum in Brazil.

Emma Ishta

#5. There is so much beauty in autumn and so much wisdom; so much separation and so much sorrow!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#6. I was looking at this picture of Brooke Shields at Studio 54 the other day. Everyone in the shot looks amazing because they have these black and white cameras with a flash. I think that's what photographers should go back to.

Suki Waterhouse

#7. Ari smiled. The sun was shining, the weather was great, he was eating ice cream, and all his dreams were about to come true.

James Patterson

#8. It takes a long time to write a novel when you have to keep interrupting your work to earn money.

Dana Spiotta

#9. Our house was like a hotel. It was a loony-tunes household. If you got arrested in high school, everyone knew: 'Call Mrs. Evans; she'll bail you out.'

Chris Evans

#10. Former President Bush, to celebrate his 80th birthday, jumped out of an airplane. And if you've seen the polls, you know he's not the only Bush in freefall.

David Letterman

#11. It is very extraordinary to see the perfect flush of health on her cheeks, to see the lustre of her coiled black hair, the poise of the head upon the neck, the grace of the white hands - and to think that it all means nothing - that it is a picture without a meaning. Yes, it is queer.

Ford Madox Ford

#12. The beauty of being black in American society is that black has always been an inclusive definition. White has always been an exclusive definition. I think one of the challenges for white people is to figure out how to have a more inclusive picture of who their families are, of who they are.

Benjamin Jealous

#13. When I photographed Marilyn Monroe, I mixed up my cameras - one had black-and-white film, the other color. I took many pictures. Only two color ones came out all right. My favorite picture of Marilyn hangs always on the wall in my office. It was taken on the little patio of her Hollywood house.

Alfred Eisenstaedt

#14. Another California study counted 30,000 substance abusers who are pregnant are White woman. So, The Wire paints the picture of drug addiction, drug dealing, and drug abuse as being a specifically a Black issue.

Ishmael Reed

#15. She had eyes that bore deep into his heart, bringing a sweet warm wave of assurance within; eyes that cradled him in the crisp black-and-white world on the other side of the picture, where life was, at least, beautifully lit.

Stephen Mosley

#16. If forty million people say a foolish thing it does not become a wise one.

W. Somerset Maugham

#17. If your name is Sepp, at the bare minimum you've strangled someone in a bar fight.

John Oliver

#18. The final picture in the album was of Aunt Lovey and Uncle Stash, their black-and-white wedding photo. I hated that their picture came last, because it felt like they were saying goodbye.

Lori Lansens

#19. The sky was almost black. Distant rolling rumbles. Lightning flashed white in the kitchen.

(I had a goofy thought: Did God just take our picture?)

Jerry Spinelli

#20. If you look at the Nile on a map of Egypt, you don't think it has moved very much, but the river is very violent and has moved over time.

Sarah Parcak

#21. It's hard not to love everything Prada does.

Hailee Steinfeld

#22. And all of this, all these physical aspects of painting at that time excited me very much. You could do a picture in just black and white. I mean all the things, whether you're soliciting permission or not, do give you permission.

Robert Rauschenberg