Top 100 White Is Quotes
#1. White is the color of decomposition. White is also no color. White is nothing. In photography, the paper is white, next comes the light, which is also white, then the shadow is created, the apparition.
Dieter Appelt
#2. To see something as either black or white is easy. To see the entirety in something that has blending colors takes time. To see something that's not there, takes one who is a visionary.
Wes Adamson
#3. For some stories, it's easy. The moral of 'The Three Bears,' for instance, is Never break into someone else's house.' The moral of 'Snow White' is 'Never eat apples.' The moral of World War I is 'Never assassinate Archduke Ferdinand.
Lemony Snicket
#4. Eggs possess an elemental power. Their outer shell is earth. Their white is water. The membrane that lines the shell is air, and the yolk at the core is fire. The core of the egg preserves life and being, and therefore represents heaven and earth, while the white represents chaos.
Joanne Owen
#5. In places like Germany or France the idea of black-white is not so much black-white but "our people and them," and "them" can be people from the near east like Turks or Muslims or North Africans, all of whom might well be considered white in the United States.
Nell Irvin Painter
#6. Black and white is refuge of colors from their own nullity.
Vikrmn
#7. White is for witching, a colour to be worn so that all other colours can enter you, so that you may use them. At a pinch, cream will do.
Helen Oyeyemi
#8. 'The Crimson Petal and the White' is a book, and it will win or lose the trust of each reader when they begin reading its pages. That relationship will go on.
Michel Faber
#9. White is fearful to gaze upon for too long: it is the color of shrouds; it is all-color, the prism fused, undifferentiated, linked wave to wave and particle to particle.
Chaim Potok
#10. The ladies of St. James's! They're painted to the eyes; Their white is stays for ever, Their red it never dies; But Phyllida, my Phillida! Her colour comes and goes; It trembles to a lily,
It wavers to a rose.
Henry Austin Dobson
#11. A lie has many colours,
while white is the only faithful colour of truth.
Munia Khan
#12. Walking along the path that she chose, without being affected by others ... in this sense, white is her color ... in another sense, it also makes me want to put more colors on her
Usui Takumi
#13. I just think that Jack White is the consummate artist - an artist's artist. I'm a huge fan.
Miguel
#14. The resistance to [black-and-white] is huge, in the way that you have to sell the film. It's difficult to distribute around the world.
John Boorman
#15. Mama, black and white is boring, deep within the gray is where the real action is.
Jan Tilley
#16. You know, I always say white is not a colour, white is an attitude, and if you haven't got trillions of dollars in the bank that you don't need, you can't be white.
Dick Gregory
#17. Quoting E. B. White is the easiest way I know of to fool people into thinking that I am perceptive, witty, and wise.
Peter Behrens
#18. A clear and unified voice. In that context, this business of being biracial, of being half black and half white, is awkward.
Zadie Smith
#19. I think Betty White is one of the sexiest women in America.
Robert Pattinson
#21. CARRIE WHITE IS BURNING FOR HER SINS JESUS NEVER FAILS
Stephen King
#22. Color is descriptive. Black and white is interpretive.
Elliott Erwitt
#23. Really? A Confession flower. Why would it be called that? Because a confession is a revelation of the truth. Truth is pure. White is pure. Thus the name.
Terry Goodkind
#25. Never to have to think of yourself as white is a luxory that makes you deeply stupid.
Leonard Michaels
#26. White is The color for innocence, but iT can Be So Dangerous.
Jan Jansen
#27. Black and white is much closer to the condition of
dreaming. It links you to the subconscious and I think that was
part of the great appeal of movies originally.. this strange otherness.
John Boorman
#28. When I set a glass prism on a windowsill and allow the sun to flood through it, a spectrum of colors dances on the floor. What we call "white" is a rainbow of colored rays packed into a small space. The prism sets them free. Love is the white light of emotion.
Diane Ackerman
#29. Black and White is essentially an abstract way to interpret and transform what one might refer to as reality. My purpose in taking photographs over the past forty years has ultimately been about defining myself. It has been fundamentally a psychological and existential journey.
Roger Ballen
#30. White is a particularly unusual color because it can also be seen as the absence of color.
Kenya Hara
#31. Anything that is white is sweet.
Anything that is brown is meat.
Anything that is grey, don't eat.
Stephen Sondheim
#32. My gray zone is starting to include poetry here white is not absolute white black is not absolute black the edges of these non-colors adjoin
Tadeusz Rozewicz
#34. It's all black and white to you, isn't it?" "Gray is but another word for light black. Gray is never white. Only white is white. There are no shades of it.
Karen Marie Moning
#35. I learned that the best way to take all people, black or white, is to take them for what they think they are, then leave them alone. That was when I realised that a nigger is not a person so much as a form of behavior; a sort of obverse reflection of the white people he lives among.
William Faulkner
#36. Oddly enough, white is a dead tone in a small room. Choosing something with a more medium tone will make the space feel larger.
Emily Henderson
#37. Colour is everything, black and white is more.
Dominic Rouse
#38. 'Snow White' is an old fairy tale, so obviously the idea of vanity and obsession with youth is long-standing. With today's science, people have become crazy with trying to move their face around. It's bizarre.
Julia Roberts
#39. Start with a blank surface. It doesn't have to be paper or canvas, but I feel it should be white. We call it white because we need a word, but its true name is nothing. Black is the absence of light, but white is the absence of memory, the color of can't remember.
Stephen King
#40. I use very little red. I use blue, yellow, a little green, but especially ... black, white and grey. There is a certain need in me for communication with human beings. Black and white is writing.
Hans Arp
#41. The difference between black and white is grace, not gray.
Evinda Lepins
#42. 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
#44. People sometimes think I take a white canvas and paint a black sign on it,but this is not true.I paint the white as well as the black and the white is just as important.
Franz Kline
#46. I'd have wasted a lot of time and trouble before I learned that the best way to take all people, black or white, is to take them for what they think they are, then leave them alone.
William Faulkner
#47. One of the wise and awful truths which this brown-paper art reveals, is that, white is a colour. It is not a mere absence of colour; it is a shining and affirmative thing, as fierce as red, as definite as black.
G.K. Chesterton
#48. White is actually one of my favorite colors. I have a white car. I love white.
Kim Kardashian
#49. It isn't a matter of black is beautiful as much as it is white is not all that's beautiful.
Bill Cosby
#50. He likes to use his wit and verbal finesse to confuse others and win arguments. Although he can argue successfully that white is black and straight is crooked, you walk away with the feeling that he's won the argument not because he is correct but because you can't outwit him.
Liezi
#51. Oh my God, Betty White is actually everything that you would expect her to be like.
Yvette Nicole Brown
#52. I don't love balls and sleeping beauties, that kind of thing. I think the great thing about 'Snow White' is those images have scarred me since I was a child with the Queen, the mirror, the taking of the heart, the huntsman and the enchanted forest.
Rupert Sanders
#53. The reason people think it's important to be white is that they think it's important not to be black.
James Baldwin
#54. Even though white is often associated with things, that are pleasant and pure, there is a peculiar emptiness about the color white. It is the emptiness of the white that is more disturbing, than even the bloodiness of red.
Herman Melville
#55. Black and white is as if phoenix of colors has eloped into opacity.
Vikrmn
#56. 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
#57. Any anxieties publishers have about putting a child on the front cover of a book who isn't white is very old fashioned.
Malorie Blackman
#58. Being white is a job in America. You take that away, you better get the soldiers out.
Dick Gregory
#59. We should always be disposed to believe that that which appears white is really black, if the hierarchy of the Church so decides.
Saint Ignatius
#61. Some of you are most likely thinking that white is not really a colour and all of that tired sort of nonsense. Well, I'm here to tell you that it is. White is without question a colour, and personally, I don't think you want to argue with me.
Markus Zusak
#62. Rick Wakeman and Jon Anderson have rejoined and gone off again and rejoined, but I've been there the whole time, and even though Alan White is the 'new' drummer, he has been there since 1972, so he also deserves the credit for being around for 20 years.
Chris Squire
#63. Above all, he said, white is a feeling.
Lloyd Jones
#64. 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
#65. All politics to me - Indian or white - is an illusion preventing us from being authentic because we're communicating through something that isn't real to us.
John Trudell
#66. She was born poor and powerless in a land where power is money and money is adored.
Born black in a land where might is white and white is adored.
Born female in a land where decisions are masculine and masculinity controls.
Maya Angelou
#67. White is too brilliant to be seen, so yellow is its filter, its costume, revealing that pure light has not only brightness but emotional resonance and depth.
Richard Grossinger
#68. The world isn't that black-and-white, is it? It doesn't all boil down to with or against. Some of us just want to stay alive.
Victoria Schwab
#71. The sentence 'snow is white' is true if, and only if, snow is white.
Alfred Tarski
#72. Black and white is salt and pepper of colors, for life tastes bland without them.
Vikrmn
#73. AUNT SHADIE:
I see you - and don't worry, you're not white.
ROSE:
I'm pretty sure I'm white. I'm English.
AUNT SHADIE:
White is blindness - it has nothing to do with the colour of your skin.
Marie Clements
#74. Life is in color, but black and white is more realistic.
Samuel Fuller
#75. Eloquence, n. The art of orally persuading fools that white is the color that it appears to be. It includes the gift of making any color appear white.
Ambrose Bierce
#76. Now, one hears from a long time ago that "white is merely a state of mind." I add to that, white is a moral choice. It's up to you to be as white as you want to be and pay the price of that ticket. You cannot tell a black man by the color of skin, either. But this is a democracy.
James Baldwin
#77. When we don't have information, we go to the simplest outlook, to black and white. But then we have to lie to ourselves. Black is never as black as you're painting it and white is never as white.
Patricia Sun
#78. To play for a draw (at any rate with White) is to some degree a crime against chess.
Mikhail Tal
#79. White ... is death. It's hospitals. It's my terrible nurses. White is absolute horror. It is just the worst.
Joan Mitchell
#80. White is pure and simple and matches with everything.
Christian Dior
#81. Start [the movie] in color. Color is always attributed as fun, and black and white is very sad.
Marjane Satrapi
#82. People don't understand real musicians anymore. Jack White is great - he's the real thing - but he isn't having hits.
Prince
#83. In comedy timing is everything, but Betty White is the rarest of comics who seems to have mastered time itself.
Brian Williams
#84. White is not always light and black is not always dark.
Habeeb Akande
#86. I think white is the most wonderful color of all, because within it one can find every color of the rainbow.
Richard Meier
#87. Where white is black and black is white, I won.
Ted Hughes
#88. Betty White is a riot. She is a good time! That is the bottom line: Betty White is a good time. She is really an incredible woman. She is so kind. She doesn't have one mean bone in her body, and she is the funniest woman in the room always. And you'll never hear one complaint from her.
Odette Annable
#89. To see things in black and white is to see the basics, and I would recommend to any designer of gardens that he go out and look at his work by the light of the moon.
Eleanor Perenyi
#90. The camera implies meaning where no meaning exists. I had not celebrated that brother and sister. I had mocked them. I had exploited their sorrow. I had tried to make them part of a hopeful message on the state of the Union. To be black is to be the actor. To be white is to be the critic.
Don DeLillo
#91. Did you know Carrie White is going to the prom?"
Morty blinked. "With who? The Beak?" The Beak was Freddy Holt, another of Ewen's misfits. He weighed perhaps one hundred pounds soaking wet, and the casual observer might be tempted to believe that sixty of it was nose.
Stephen King
#92. White is not a mere absence of color; it is a shining and affirmative thing, as fierce as red, as definite as black. God paints in many colors; but He never paints so gorgeously, I had almost said so gaudily, as when He paints in white.
G.K. Chesterton
#93. Truth; that long clean clear simple undeniable unchallengeable straight and shining line, on one side of which black is black and on the other white is white, has now become an angle, a point of view.
William Faulkner
#94. Black and white is how it should be, but shades of grey are the colors I see.
Billy Joel
#95. Now each one of us, black or white, is a symbol. The war is out in the open and the skin color is a uniform. All the deep and basic similarities of the human condition are forgotten so that we can exaggerate the few differences that exist.
John D. MacDonald
#96. White is associated with purity because the entire spectrum is functioning in unity. White is a healing color. White is appropriate for weddings because the unity of male and female symbolizes the unity of allness.
Tae Yun Kim
#97. Racial discrimination against a white is as unconstitutional as race discrimination against a black.
William O. Douglas
#98. How white is an Irishman's ass?" Eve wondered out loud.
"You should know, darling.
J.D. Robb
#99. I refuse to eat a fried egg if the white is still runny or transparent. I really can't be doing it. I always have to flip it over.
Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall
#100. There's no reason in the world why black [people] should not be regarded as an attribute that is not degrading but is positive. There's no reason in the world why any person should think that white is degrading.
John Hope Franklin
