Top 100 Quotes About Black And White And Color
#1. I like contrasting between black and white and color.
Robert Barry
#2. A film fable so structured that all alchemical searchings are clearly filmwise (gold being discovered cinematically in each sequence ot mixed black-and-white and color) so that when the drama-discovery is actually made, it acts as a deliberate anti-climax of aesthetic perfection.
Stan Brakhage
#3. I hold the cigarette like i'm in a black-and-white movie.
but when jed lights the match, it spreads to color,
his skin in the campfire light, the spark of his eyes
as he leans in to me
David Levithan
#4. We've got Chinese, white, black and mixed; but remember that our colors are cheap, for after many years of contracts and tricks nobody's purity runs very deep.
Nicolas Guillen
#5. 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
#6. Indeed, Scripture exhibits fully as clear evidence of its own truth5 as white and black things do of their color, or sweet and bitter things do of their taste.
John Calvin
#7. Until the late 1970s there'd either be only black or white in the paintings or if there were colours it would be a small amount, not a large area, and with the color separated from other colors by black or white (which is formula for Damien Hirst's successful dot paintings, incidentally).
Matthew Collings
#8. Sight without color would be a good analogy...only being able to see in black and white rather than seeing in full color would be like experiencing an orgasm with a foreskin and without. There are feelings you'll just never have without the foreskin.
Kristen O'Hara
#9. People said Ove saw the world in black and white. But she was color. All the color he had.
Fredrik Backman
#10. But I'm telling you, something happens to beautiful people. They think that something extra is owed to them by life, by God, by all the people around them. They think their life has to be better, more dramatic, happier - in color, not black and white.
Paullina Simons
#11. We have but one flag, one country; let us stand together. We may differ in color, but not in sentiment. Many things have been said about me which are wrong, and which white and black persons here, who stood by me through the war, can contradict.
Nathan Bedford Forrest
#12. It was because this stark world LeBlanc was trying to create was a lie; there was spectrum of color between black and white, and many, many layers of choice between yes and no.
Sharon Cameron
#13. It feels so separate, like I've touched something that's taken the color out of me. Or maybe I'm in color now and they're in black and white.
Kendare Blake
#14. As a child I simply did not notice whether a movie was in color or not. The movies themselves were such an overwhelming mystery that if they wanted to be in black and white, that was their business.
Roger Ebert
#15. I've been identified with pink throughout my career, but I'm not as crazy about it as I've led people to believe. My favorite colors are actually neutrals - black and white - but then who thinks of a movie queen in black and white? Everything has to be in living color.
Jayne Mansfield
#17. I photographed the entire thing in color because to photograph it in black and white would be to keep it as a tragedy. Because there is a tragic element to photographing, in this case not war, but the collapse. It was just destruction.
Joel Meyerowitz
#18. Black and white is a very minimalist art form and unlike color photographs does not pretend to mimic the world in a manner similar to the way the human eye might perceive ...
Black and white is essentially an abstract way to interpret and transform what one might refer to as reality.
Roger Ballen
#19. The world of Katherine Kavanagh is very clear, very black and white. Not the intangible, mysterious, vague hues of gray that color my world. Welcome to my world.
E.L. James
#20. You knew you had become comfortable when you told him that you watched Jeopardy on the restaurant TV and that you rooted for the following, in this order: women of color, black men, and white women, before, finally, white men - which meant you never rooted for white men.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
#21. I see love in black and white. Passion in shades of "gris". But when it comes to you and I, color is all I see.
Lady Gaga
#22. The line isn't so black and white anymore. I'm pretty sure gray just became my new favorite color.
Colleen Hoover
#23. Black and white might be sufficient. But why deprive yourself of color.
Christian Dior
#24. I feel you see every crack and bruise with black and white [pictiures] and color distracts usually from the honesty.
Nikki Sixx
#25. A major problem for Black women, and all people of color, when we are challenged to oppose anti-Semitism, is our profound scepticism that white people can actually be oppressed.
Barbara Smith
#26. The great black and white draftsman, the sculptor, and the blind man know that form and color are separate. The form itself is what the blind man knows ... Color is surface skin that fits over the form.
John French Sloan
#27. I've always been multi-cultural myself. I'm not black and I'm not white and I'm not pink and I'm not green. Eartha Kitt has no color, and that is how barriers are broken.
Eartha Kitt
#28. I shoot in black and white, sometimes color, sometimes if it looks good I shoot out the window of the airplanes or whatever, anything that - sometimes I secretly take secret photos, shoot video of people on the plane if it's not too crowded. I don't know, whatever comes up.
Robert Barry
#29. Sports was a great equalizer. It didn't have color. It didn't matter whether you were rich or poor, black or white. It really shaped me in many ways to be able to deal with a lot of different personalities and different cultures. Sports were the common thread.
Howard Schultz
#30. Black and white can show how something is. Color adds how it is, imbued with temperatures and humidities of experience.
Peter Schjeldahl
#31. I don't see in black or white. I see in the color of humanity which is the rainbow of harmony. In that spirit there is only good and evil, peace or war, love or hate and happiness or discontent.
Timothy Pina
#32. I don't think paper will go away. I do believe that the value of paper will change, and Xerox is working on changing that value. Consider a color page. Actual life is in color, but you keep reproducing it in black and white. You remove value. It's a bad thing to do.
Ursula Burns
#33. All painting worth its name, unless one is talking about black and white, must include the idea of color as one of its necessary supports, in the same way that it includes chiaroscuro, proportion, and perspective.
Eugene Delacroix
#34. A lot of black-and-white films generally have a color version that will be used for TV.
Noah Baumbach
#35. I like black and white films. I don't exactly know why - probably because there is a stylization which is removed from actual life, unlike a color film.
Norman McLaren
#36. The outside world is black and white with only one color dead.
Peter Gabriel
#37. I don't understand people who dream in black and white. I just don't get it. My dreams have always been vivid color.
Gary Ross
#38. Black and white is abstract; color is not. Looking at a black and white photograph, you are already looking at a strange world.
Joel Sternfeld
#39. And it felt like I was a black - and - white photo magically rippling into color wherever he touched me.
Judy Sheehan
#40. When white and black meet today, sometimes there is a ready understanding that there has been an encounter between two human beings. But often there is only, or chiefly, an awareness that Two Colors are in the room.
Gwendolyn Brooks
#41. The world went from black and white and into color when I laid eyes on you, my love. There'll be no going back.
R.K. Lilley
#42. ...[W]e are in a new age in America today. It is an age in which the nuances of brown, yellow, and red are as important, if not more so, than black and white.
Ed Morales
#43. Full-color images lack the poignancy of monochrome ... Black-and-white film inherently peels off interesting images from the world; it sees things we do not see, and thus insists on the existence of a phantom presence within reality, a world we cannot perceive.
Peter C Bunnell
#44. The colors black and white are my uniform, to honor the working class. People like my parents, who were janitors and had to wear a uniform every day. It keeps me grounded.
Janelle Monae
#45. Sometimes they are heroes. Sometimes they are villains. More often they are something in between, grey characters ... and grey has long been my favorite color. It is so much more interesting than black or white.
George R R Martin
#46. Some people live such boring lives,its black and white,so dead! I choose to color my life with Fun, some blue some green,some red.-RVM
R.v.m.
#47. I was free to appreciate the quiet and the way the yellowish-gray light of the rising sun entered the room, turning everything from black and white to color. The journey from Kansas to Oz right in my own kitchen.
Edward Kelsey Moore
#48. 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
#49. Only in black and white can I see the design and textures. I don't consider color photography art. Black and white is an interpretation. Color is a duplication.
Clyde Butcher
#51. Scatman, fat man, black and white and brown man, tell me 'bout the color of your soul.
Scatman John
#52. Why black and white? Because color can be too demanding.
Diane Keaton
#53. I invented the colors of the vowels!
A black, E white, I red, O blue, U green
I made rules for the form and movement of each consonant, and, and with instinctive rhythms, I flattered myself that I had created a poetic language accessible, some day, to all the senses.
Arthur Rimbaud
#54. Black and white creates a strange dreamscape that color never can.
Jack Antonoff
#55. I used to get my hair dyed at a place called Big Hair. It cost $15. They just used straight bleach, so my hair was the color of white lined paper, and my eyebrows looked like they were done with a thick black marker.
Amy Poehler
#56. The mountain trembled like an earthquake. Dust flew into the sky. And the rock turned dark red, like the color of blood'.
'How would you know?' Asks Sindhi cap. 'You only have a black and white television'.
'But it's a very good one. You can almost see colours.
Mohsin Hamid
#57. I think we're entering a new period of filmmaking that's analogous to switching from black-and-white to color, or from silent to sound. The medium is completely flexible, and it's not bound by anything. If you imagine something, you can do it.
Jean-Pierre Jeunet
#58. It's hard to live your life in color, and tell the truth in black and white.
Gregg Allman
#59. They are all black and white and she is color. She is all my colors.
Lauren Blakely
#60. I support any procedure that allows photographers to express themselves, whether that involves color, black and white, platinum, palladium and digital technology.
John Sexton
#61. Forget black and white and try on gray. In hair color, wardrobe or life choices, it may feel more enlivening than you imagine.
Gina Greenlee
#62. I feel like Dorothy, back in Kansas, a black-and-white girl in a black-and-white world, with memories in color.
Kristin Hannah
#63. I like making black and white films in natural surroundings, but I much prefer shooting a color film inside a studio where the colors are easier to control.
Claude Chabrol
#64. Suffice it to say that black and white are also colors ... for their simultaneous contrast is as striking as that of green and red, for instance.
Vincent Van Gogh
#65. Our world was Northern, black and white, so it was a great thing for my sisters and me to sit down at Christmastime and watch these fabulous MGM musicals. All that color, all those beautiful costumes.
Tracie Bennett
#66. Did the color of his skin matter? No, Lina decided, wouldn't his racial ambiguity be a strength? Wasn't this a history from which they had all emerged, every American, black and white and every shade in between?
Tara Conklin
#67. I was right. You were asleep but you were dreamin'. You dream in black and white, babe. I gave you color. Now, you're awake."
-Kane "Tack" Allen
Kristen Ashley
#68. Old movies are black-and-white; they've got good guys and bad guys. The thing was, I didn't want to live in the past anymore. It was time for my life to go full color.
Eileen Cook
#69. I've been forty years discovering that the queen of all colors is black.
Henri Matisse
#70. It's perfect. Blurred lines; it's when fact and fiction become indiscernible. Fantasy and reality fade into a color of grey yarn and you become tangled up in it and can't escape into the world of black and white you desperately need as proof of the reality of life itself.
Scott Hildreth
#71. Doesn't the world inside a black and white photograph seem more real? It's because the real world is losing its color
Tablo
#72. Stories give color to black and white information.
Todd Stocker
#73. My philosophy, like color television, is all there in black and white.
Graham Chapman
#74. I failed math twice, never fully grasping probability theory. I mean, first off, who cares if you pick a black ball or a white ball out of the bag? And second, if you're bent over about the color, don't leave it to chance. Look in the damn bag and pick the color you want.
Janet Evanovich
#75. Right and wrong
Black and white
And many shades
Of gray
I want color in my life
Color in my dreams.
Lisa Schroeder
#76. Lynching's legacy, though, is also evident today in law enforcement's freedom from accountability in the shooting of black and other youth of color, thus displaying a de facto, and often actual, legalization of white supremacist killing of black life.
Mark Lewis Taylor
#77. When you photograph people in color, you photograph their clothes. But when you photograph people in Black and white, you photograph their souls!
Ted Grant
#78. After Arthur sent me away for my own good, it' like my life switched from color to black and white--like the ending of The Wizard of Oz.
Nick Nolan
#80. Yeah, I did see where the people dissing me were coming from. But, it's like, anything that happened in the past between black and white, I can't really speak on it, because I wasn't there. I don't feel like me being born the color I am makes me any less of a person.
Eminem
#81. In black and white there are more colors than color photography, because you are not blocked by any colors so you can use your experiences, your knowledge, and your fantasy, to put colors into black and white.
Anders Petersen
#82. The rest of the world was black and white, But we were in screaming color
Taylor Swift
#83. Four are the tributaries of the great river. Four are the harvests from floodseason to dust. Four are the great treasures: timbalin, myrrh, lapis, and jungissa. Four bands of color mark the face of the Dreaming Moon. Red for blood. White for seed. Yellow for ichor. Black for bile.
N.K. Jemisin
#84. The world is more than black and white. Seeing everything in color helps me raise my spirit and find my happy. Life is meant to be lived in color!
Jodi Livon
#85. I read that prior to the advent of color TV, most people dreamed in black and white.
Damian Loeb
#86. The first of all single colors is white ... We shall set down white for the representative of light, without which no color can be seen; yellow for the earth; green for water; blue for air; red for fire; and black for total darkness.
Leonardo Da Vinci
#87. I used to rely on black-and-white, and while I was working on 'Smile,' I learned to adapt to color on my end.
Raina Telgemeier
#88. It disturbed me that he saw things in such black-and-white tones. I sure didn't. For me, the world was a confusion of color.
Dia Reeves
#89. If I'm doing a logo, I'll do it in black and white. Once the form is feeling right, only then do I start exploring the color palettes. A good example was the process of rebranding the Salvador Dali Museum. I did at least 100 versions in black and white.
David Carson
#90. My black-and-white work is more of a celebration, and the color work became more of a critique of society.
Martin Parr
#91. When you talk to people who have been in combat, there's a sensory overload that happens. The color becomes vivid. Sounds become more pronounced. People talk about how, for them, the war was technicolor and real life was black and white after the war.
David Ayer
#92. That sounded like something Mother would say, throwing color onto a black-and-white picture.
Ruta Sepetys
#93. Love is not black and white. It's not even gray. Love is every shade of color in the spectrum, changing with every ray of light given and stolen.
Cassia Leo
#94. And my point was one I think that you'd agree with, which is there's no room in America for a black racist, a Latino racist, or a white racist, or an Asian racist, or a Native American racist. Now, we're either color blind or we're not color blind.
Newt Gingrich
#95. Color is descriptive. Black and white is interpretive.
Elliott Erwitt
#96. Entertainment came out of this thing called a television, and it was gray. Most of the films that we saw at the cinema were black and white. It was a gray world. And music somehow was in color.
Pete Townshend
#97. The angel said, I like black-and-white films more than color because they're more artificial. You have to work harder to overcome your disbelief. It's sort of like prayer.
Jonathan Carroll
#98. He was a man of black and white. And she was color. All the color he had.
Fredrik Backman
#99. Some questions had no right answers, only shades of wrong, and people couldn't live in black-and-white. Sometimes there were pops of glorious color, and on other occasions, gray was the only visible hue.
Ann Aguirre
#100. In some sense, list-making is to mind-mapping as black and white photography is to color photography. Both are good, both are useful. One gives you precision and clarity; the other gives you a broader spectrum of potential beauty, as well as access to otherwise-unseen features.
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