Quotes About Black And White Photography

#1. To some extent, the cult surrounding black-and-white photography is based on nostalgia.

Rene Burri

#2. Black and white photography is truly quite a 'departure from reality', and the transition from one aspect of visual magic to another was not as complete as many imagine.

Ansel Adams

#3. I am inspired by great food, theater, books, the beach, black-and-white photography, and great vocalists, like Dianne Reeves, Alice Smith, and Shirley Horn. I am inspired by my mentor Diana Castle, who is guiding me towards a truth and honesty in my life and work that I have always longed for.

Erica Tazel

#4. In fact, I probably learned more about photography from studying black-and-white photography in those magazines [Look Magazine and LIFE Magazine] than I did from watching movies here. That's the truth.

Vilmos Zsigmond

#5. Love is the color in the black and white photography!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#6. Black-and-white photography, which I was doing in the very early days, was essentially called art photography and usually consisted of landscapes by people like Ansel Adams and Edward Weston. But photographs by people like Adams didn't interest me.

William Eggleston

#7. 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.

Anonymous

#8. People with money tend to buy more things instead of experiences...because they don't have time.

Richie Norton

#9. Black and white are the colors of photography. To me they symbolize the alternatives of hope and despair to which mankind is forever subjected.

Robert Frank

#10. What the human eye sees is an illusion of what is real. The black and white image transforms illusions into another reality.

Ruth Bernhard

#11. Everything looks worse in black and white.

Paul Simon

#12. I believe that the essence of photography is black and white. Color is but a deviance.

Sarah Moon

#13. In the '70s, in Britain, if you were going to do serious photography, you were obliged to work in black-and-white. Color was the palette of commercial photography and snapshot photography.

Martin Parr

#14. When we concentrate on photography, we make it possible to see the walls of photographs in black homes as a critical intervention, a disruption of white control over black images.

Bell Hooks

#15. One sees differently with color photography than black-and-white ... in short, visualization must be modified by the specific nature of the equipment and materials being used.

Ansel Adams

#16. Socrates condemned art because he preferred philosophy and only after much internal struggle did Plato accept this judgment.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#17. I'm a big believer that there's a reason for everything. I'm a hopeless optimist.

Rachael Yamagata

#18. In black and white you suggest, in color you state.

Paul Outerbridge

#19. You're a ring-wearing, save-yourself-for-marriage kind of girl. I dig that.

E.C. Newman

#20. Photography has always been associated with death. Reality is colorful, yet early photography always took the color out of reality and made it black-and-white. Color is life; black-and-white is death. There was a ghost hidden in the invention of photography.

Nobuyoshi Araki

#21. One very important difference between color and monochromatic photography is this: in black and white you suggest; in color you state. Much can be implied by suggestion, but statement demands certainty ... absolute certainty.

Paul Outerbridge

#22. I don't ever claim to be a hip-hop head.

Solange Knowles

#23. 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

#24. It's almost too perfect - the poster girl for an illness in the early days of photography sees the world in black and white.

Siri Hustvedt

#25. The eye should learn to listen before it looks.

Robert Frank

#26. 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

#27. May not lead to reduction in U.S. casualties until its final stages, as our casualty rate may be unrelated to the total number of American troops in South Vietnam. To kill about 150 U.S. soldiers a week, the enemy needs to attack only a small portion of our forces ... .

Henry Kissinger

#28. 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

#29. A man will go to war, fight and die for his country. But he won't get a bikini wax.

Rita Rudner

#30. 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

#31. I'm only lonely when I'm driving in my car. I'm only lonely after dark. I'm only lonely when I watch my TV. I'm only lonely occasionally.

Melissa Etheridge

#32. Let freedom ka-ching ... Corporations do everything people do except breathe, die and go to jail for dumping 1.3 million pounds of PCBs in the Hudson River.

Stephen Colbert

#33. I wasn't going to be an actor. I was going to be a lawyer. I came from a family just above working class, just below middle class, a great family of wonderful values. The idea of me having a chance for a law degree was enticing. Enticing to me but also very enticing to my family.

Gerard Butler

#34. Not only does a lens distort forms, but the ordinary plate makes an unholy mess of colour in its tone relations. Yellow becomes black, and blue white. Black sunflowers against a white sky - what a travesty!

Walter J. Phillips

#35. Fall for me, as an apple falls, as rain falls, because you must. Use gravity to anchor your desire.

Jeanette Winterson