Black And White Quotes - Page 15

• Black and white can show how something is. Color adds how it is, imbued with temperatures and humidities of experience.

  Peter Schjeldahl

  Color, Add, Temperature

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• There is a land problem in Zimbabwe, there is a need land for redistribution but it must be handled different, without violence, without conflict, within the context of the law, bearing in mind the interests of all Zimbabweans both black and white. It's necessary that the Zimbabwean government to respond positively to those sorts of messages.

  Thabo Mbeki

  Government, Law, Land

  Source: www.nelsonmandela.org

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• Period recreation is very difficult unless you make a black and white movie.

  Alan Parker

  Periods, Recreation, Difficult

  Guardian Interview, www.theguardian.com. January 7, 2000.

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• It would be much easier to just make black, brown and beige clothes. But I do not see the world in black and white and beige. I find colors incredibly important.

  Jean Pigozzi

  Color, Clothes, Important

  "Parking in the Meatpacking: Johnny Pigozzi". Interview with Colleen Nika, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 3, 2010.

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• I did a dance sequence in my second short film, which was my best short film, called 'Hairway to the Stars,' and I think Chris Wink, the founder of Blue Man Group, was in that. It's a black-and-white dance sequence. We were Glorious Food waiters together.

  David O. Russell

  Stars, Men, Thinking

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• 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

  Photography, Looks, Magazines

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• It's hard to live your life in color, and tell the truth in black and white.

  Gregg Allman

  Color, Live Your Life, Telling The Truth

  "Song: "Wolf's A' Howlin'"". 1997.

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• It was a black and white only computer at the time, but it kept me fascinated.

  Buffy Sainte-Marie

  Computer, Fascinated, White

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• My black-and-white work is more of a celebration and the color work became more of a critique of society.

  Martin Parr

  Color, Celebration, Critique

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• I like Jailhouse Rock and Love Me Tender. The black-and-white films. With music, I tend more toward the '70s stuff because I was at the shows for those, so they bring back memories.

  Lisa Marie Presley

  Memories, Rocks, And Love

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• When you write a song, most of the words you use are in black and white, and then, from time to time, you use one that’s in color. These words in color are a part of ourselves, because we give them a meaning. If you like, we give them a third dimension.

  Jacques Brel

  Song, Writing, Color

  "Nous les artistes: Jacques Brel". www.imdb.com. 1979.

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• Here's Williams' roadmap out of poverty: Complete high school; get a job, any kind of a job; get married before having children; and be a law-abiding citizen. Among both black and white Americans so described, the poverty rate is in the single digits.

  Walter E. Williams

  Jobs, Children, School

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• The prejudice many photographers have against colour photography comes from not thinking of colour as form. You can say things with colour that can't be said in black and white... Those who say that colour will eventually replace black and white are talking nonsense. The two do not compete with each other. They are different means to different ends.

  Edward Weston

  Photography, Art, Creativity

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• ...everything looks worse in black and white.

  Paul Simon

  Photography, Looks, White

  Song: Kodachrome

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• 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

  Wall, Taken, Color

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• Panda. Large black-and-white bear-like mammal, native to China. Eats, shoots and leaves.

  Lynne Truss

  Mammals, Pandas, Bears

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• I'm pretty selective. I generally edit the contact sheets and then do work prints. Because I have my own lab and printers, I can afford the luxury of going through the contact sheets for black-and-white, making up work prints, seeing them big, and honing them down.

  Herb Ritts

  Luxury, Labs, Sheets

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• I'm for the poor man - all poor men, black and white, they all gotta have a chance. They gotta have a home, a job, and a decent education for their children. 'Every man a king' - that's my slogan.

  Huey Long

  Kings, Jobs, Children

  "Huey Long". Book by T. Harry Williams, 1969.

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• Brent Berlin and Paul Kay in Basic Color Terms demonstrate exhaustively and empirically, the very simple thesis that anywhere in the world, as a language develops and acquires names for color, the colors always enter in the same order. The most primitive are black and white. Then red. Then either green or yellow.

  Alexander Theroux

  Simple, Order, Color

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• I try to write about real women, real people - in other words flawed characters. I find flawed characters much more interesting than perfect ones and enjoy the challenge of making readers root for them in spite of their unsympathetic path and destructive choices. Life is about the gray areas. Things are seldom black and white, even when we wish they were and think they should be, and I like exploring this nuanced terrain.

  Emily Giffin

  Real, Writing, Character

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• The colour grey makes you feel uneasy, makes things seem complicated and hopeless, it upsets the notion of black and white. Good and evil? There is no such thing. There is a little good and a evil, a little black and a little white. Grey is not an attractive colour, but perhaps it is the one that describes the world most accurately.

  Akif Pirincci

  Evil, Upset, World

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• With sports, you get the results back right away. With life, it's not always so black and white.

  Rebecca Twigg

  Sports, Results, White

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• In my teens I saw the world in only black and white. Now I know that most things exist in a certain gray area. Though it took a while to get here, I now call this gray area home. I once believed that participating in a capitalist economy would be the death of me, but now realize that agonizing over the political implications of every move I make isn’t exactly living.

  Sophia Amoruso

  Moving, Home, Capitalist Economy

  Sophia Amoruso (2014). “#GIRLBOSS”, p.72, Penguin

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• I don't think it's a black and white issue. If a man's family is starving so to speak, I don't think I'll hold it against him for stealing a loaf of bread.

  Zach Braff

  Men, Thinking, Issues

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• ...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

  Photography, Color, Photographer

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