Black And White Quotes - Page 2

• If I could have had my own way, I would have confined myself to black and white.

  Edgar Degas

  Way, My Own, If I Could

  Edgar Degas (1963). “Degas”

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• When you have something in black and white, you can deal with it quicker.

  Niki Lauda

  White, Black, Deals

  Source: www.european-business.com

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• Diversity doesn't mean black and white only.

  Henry Louis Gates

  Mean, Diversity, White

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  Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still.

  Dorothea Lange

  Inspirational, Life, Change

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• Being glamorous is about strength and confidence. It's black and white - dramatic. You have to be strong.

  Catherine Zeta-Jones

  Strong, Dramatic, Glamorous

  FaceBook post by Catherine Zeta-Jones from Jan 25, 2017

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

  Sarah Moon

  Photography, Believe, Color

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• 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

  Photography, Color, Forever

  Sarah Greenough, Robert Frank, Philip Brookman, National Gallery of Art (U.S.) (1994). “Robert Frank”, Natl Gallery of Art

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• There are two kinds of people in the world—only two kinds. Not black or white, rich or poor, but those either dead in sin or dead to sin.

  Leonard Ravenhill

  Death, Two, Rich Or Poor

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• From black and white to a sepia tone, some dreams come with a tint or in monochrome

  Shing02

  Dream, Tone, Monochrome

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• The outside world is black and white with only one color dead.

  Peter Gabriel

  Color, World, Controversy

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• Nothing is black-and-white, except for winning and losing, and maybe that’s why people gravitate to that so much.

  Steve Nash

  Winning, People, Losing

  "Q&A: Steve Nash on Trying Out for Inter Milan, the Dwight Howard Pitch Meeting, and His Favorite TV Dramas". Interview with Zach Lowe, grantland.com. July 31, 2013.

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• 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

  Dream, Thinking, Links

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• I think love keeps on changing every day.
  It’s not black and white and it’s definitely more than 50 shades of grey.

  Ville Valo

  Thinking, Shade, Grey

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• Black and white is how it should be, but shades of grey are the colors I see.

  Billy Joel

  Philosophy, Color, Shade

  Song: Shades Of Grey, Album: River of Dreams, 1993

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• Relationships are not straight forward. They're not black and white. Sometimes things don't always going in a straight line, and that's okay. Love can be very confusing.

  Danica McKellar

  Confusing, Lines, Sometimes

  "Danica McKellar, Olivia d’Abo and Alley Mills Talk THE WONDER YEARS, How the Show Impacted Their Lives, and the 23 Hours of Bonus Features on the DVD". Interview, collider.com. September 23, 2014.

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• It is wonderful how much depends upon the relations of black and white A black and white, if properly balanced, suggests colour.

  Winslow Homer

  Wonderful, Relation, Colour

  Winslow Homer (1979). “Winslow Homer: Master of the Wood Engraving”

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• Life is not black and white. The closes we ever get to either of those colors is wearing them.

  Karen Marie Moning

  Color, Life Is, White

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• 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

  Photography, Art, Color

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• Which of my photographs is my favorite? The one I'm going to take tomorrow.

  Imogen Cunningham

  Inspirational, Photography, Art

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• For me, the subtlety of black and white inspires the imagination of the individual viewer to complete the picture in the mind's eye. It doesn't attempt to compete with the outside world. I believe it is calmer and gentler than colour, and persists longer in our visual memory.

  Michael Kenna

  Memories, Believe, Eye

  Source: www.smh.com.au

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• If everything isn't black and white, I say, 'Why the hell not?'

  John Wayne

  Reality, Conservative, Hell

  John Wayne, Carol Lea Mueller (2007). “The Quotable John Wayne: The Grit and Wisdom of an American Icon”, p.12, Taylor Trade Publications

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• One can steal ideas, but no one can steal execution or passion.

  Tim Ferriss

  Inspirational, Passion, Ideas

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• I think if you live in a black-and-white world, you're gonna suffer a lot. I used to be like that. But I don't believe that anymore.

  Bradley Cooper

  Believe, Thinking, Suffering

  "High Infidelity". Interview with Holly Millea, www.elle.com. December 11, 2008.

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  The difficulty lies, not in the new ideas, but in escaping from the old ones.

  John Maynard Keynes

  Inspirational, Change, Lying

  "The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money". Book by John Maynard Keynes (Preface), 1936.

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• Black-and-white gives you that sort of parallel world. Also, it's very close to the condition of dreaming, to the unconscious.

  John Boorman

  Dream, Giving, World

  Interview with Joshua Klein, www.avclub.com. January 20, 1999.

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