90+ Black And White Quotes, & Sayings

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Mortals. Everything is so black and white to you.― Kami Garcia

I believe very strongly that when it comes to desire when it comes to attraction, things are never black and white, things are very much shades of grey. – Brian Molko

Black and white are abstract; color is not. Looking at a black and white photograph, you are already looking at a strange world. – Joel Sternfeld

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

Black And White Quotes

Black and white can transform a scene into something magical. – Rob Sheppard

Black and white create a strange dreamscape that color never can. – Jack Antonoff

Light is meaningful only in relation to darkness, and truth presupposes error. It is these mingled opposites that people our life, which make it pungent, intoxicating. We only exist in terms of this conflict, in the zone where black and white clash.― Louis Aragon

I don’t see the world completely in black and white. Sometimes I do. – Benicio Del Toro

Black and white have the potential to make any photographer a better photographer. – Rob Sheppard

The eye should learn to listen before it looks. ― Robert Frank

Photographs open doors into the past, but they also allow a look into the future. – Sally Mann

I generally don’t think most situations can be labeled as black or white. -Heath Ledger

My philosophy, like color television, is all there in black and white― Monty Python

I don’t believe there are two sides to every story. It’s black and white. There’s right and wrong. – Joe Wurzelbacher

When I shoot a photo I already know if the final image will be black and white or color – it’s a matter of what expressive language you want for that project. Of course, some images are more suitable for the black-and-white world, especially high-contrasted images. – Gian Marco Marano

I am very cautious of people who are absolutely right, especially when they are vehemently so. ― Michael Palin,

I generally don’t think most situations can be labeled as black or white. – Heath Ledger

All the beauty of life is made up of light and shadow. – Leo Tolstoy

I don’t know why we work, my husband and I. We just do. We are black and white – yin and yang.― Heidi Klum

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

I think it’s because it was an emotional story, and emotions come through much stronger in black and white. Color is distracting in a way, it pleases the eye but it doesn’t necessarily reach the heart. – Kim Hunter

The most colorful thing in the world is black and white, it contains all colors and at the same time excludes all. ― Vikrmn,

Black and white photography erases time from the equation. – Jason Peterson

We are all somewhere or the other a little grey, not black and white. We have our imperfections. -Kriti Sanon

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

Life is not black and white; there is some gray nuance to it. – Pilou Asbaek

The world is in color, you have to work in black and white. – Andrew Maclean

In the beginning, some people try to appear that everything about them is “in black and white,” until later their true colors come out. ― Anthony Liccione

When you reduce life to black and white, you never see rainbows. – Rachel Houston

We are all somewhere or the other a little grey, not black and white. We have our imperfections. – Kriti Sanon

Books bring alluring colors to our mundane black-and-white world.― Caleb Reese

There are infinite shades of grey. Writing often appears so black and white. – Rebecca Solnit

I work in color sometimes, but I guess the images I most connect to, historically speaking, are in black and white. I see more in black and white – I like the abstraction of it – Mary Ellen Mark

No person is completely wicked, just as no person is perfect. We are all grey ― Sweety Shinde,

Being glamorous is about strength and confidence. It’s black and white- dramatic – Catherine Zeta-Jones

Nothing is black or white, nothing’s ‘us or them.’ But then there are magical, beautiful things in the world. There are incredible acts of kindness and bravery, and in the most unlikely places, it gives you hope. -Dave Matthews

When you’re the victim of the behavior, it’s black and white; when you’re the perpetrator, there are a million shades of gray.― Laura Schlessinger

In the history of photography, we have many masterpieces in terms of black and white books. You have Bresson’s ‘Decisive Moment,’ Frank’s ‘The Americans’… many masterpieces. But there is nothing to this caliber in color. Well, I think I’ll waltz with my muse and hope that I might be able to produce something in this order in color. – Ralph Gibson

Ought one to surrender to authority even if one believed that that authority was wrong? If the answer was yes, then I knew that I would always be wrong, because I could never do it. Then how could one live in a world in which one’s mind and perceptions meant nothing and authority and tradition meant everything? There were no answers.― Richard Wright, Black Boy

Life is in color, but black and white are more realistic. – Samuel Fuller

The most colorful thing in the world is black and white, it contains all colors and at the same time excludes all. -Vikrmn

Celluloid will be the next decade’s black and white.― Danny Boyle

Life isn’t always black and white. You’re not always sure you’re right. At least I’m not. – Brad Paisley

Dodging and burning are steps to take care of mistakes God made in establishing tonal relationships.
– Ansel Adams

A rock is harder than a feather, you can talk and jabber and make exceptions, but in the end, if you have to choose which one is gonna hit you on the head, you’ll choose the feather every single time.― Andrew Klavan,

Color is descriptive. Black and white are interpretive. – Eliott Erwitt

The most colorful thing in the world is black and white, it contains all colors and at the same time excludes all. – Vikrmn

It is not that Shakespeare’s art is in technicolor and fancy, and that real life is black and white and tedious. The life that Shakespeare was living was the only life he had, and he had to use it to create what he was doing.― Stephen Greenblatt

The choice in politics isn’t usually between black and white. It’s between two horrible shades of gray. – Lord Thorneycroft

With black and white, what you have to say counts more than the way you say it. – Gian Marco Marano

Sometimes it gets so that I have one foot in the pages and the words, and the other in what they speak of.
― Markus Zusak,

There’s something strange and powerful about black-and-white imagery. – Stefan Kanfer

Things are not quite as simple always as black and white. -Doris Lessing

The irony is this: Our bodies react to stress in exactly the same way whether or not we have a good reason for being stressed. The body doesn’t care if we’re right or wrong. Even in those times when we feel perfectly justified in getting angry. When we tell ourselves it’s the healthy response we pay for it just the same. – Doc Childre

Diversity doesn’t mean black and white only.― Henry Louis Gates

Perhaps I am old-fashioned, but black-and-white films still hold an affectionate place in my heart; they have an incomparable mystique and mood.― Ginger Rogers

Our personal past is only available to us now through black-and-white film, it’s a medium for communication with the dead, including our dead selves, the way we used to be, which is why we’re drawn to it.
― Frank Lentricchia,

Color is everything, black and white is more. – Dominic Rouse

Things are not quite as simple always as black and white. – Doris Lessing

The way I was brought up by my parents and guided through my football life by the influences of various managers means that in some ways I am black and white.― Stuart Pearce

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

Books bring alluring colors to our mundane black-and-white world. ― Caleb Reese

I love the gray area between right and wrong. – Dan Brown

I’m seeing the world partially through the eyes of a kid. Not all the time. There’s no black and white to it. But sometimes I’m seeing it like I’m 4. -Steven Wright

It’s not hard to get your way when it’s your way or the highway. People either follow suit or they’re not around. I don’t really like the sound of that, ’cause that sounds like a temper tantrum. I’m just very black-and-white when it comes to my business. There’s really no gray area.― Nicki Minaj

Sometimes couples have to argue, not to prove who’s right or wrong, but to be reminded that their love is worth fighting for. – Nishan Panwar

The color of truth is gray. – Andre Gide

Let’s assume that all the cassettes of monochrome film Cartier-Bresson ever exposed had somehow been surreptitiously loaded with color film. I’d venture to say that about two-thirds of his pictures would be ruined and the remainder unaffected, neither spoiled nor improved. And perhaps one in a thousand enhanced. – Philip Jones Griffiths

It’s not easy taking your own advice, accepting what you don’t like hearing, & seeing the grey amongst the black & white. ― April Mae Monterrosa

Freedom would be not to choose between black and white but to abjure such prescribed choices. -Theodor W. Adorno

It’s about you. If you win, it’s you; if you lose, it’s you. Black and white. Nowhere to hide.― Greg Rusedski

If you trust in everything the world tells you, you can’t develop your own intuition about what’s right or wrong. Start believing in your own intuitions they are the green light towards your life. – Kemmy Nola

This is probably the reason why I work exclusively in black and white… to highlight that contrast. – Leonard Nimoy

This world that we live in would be perfect if there were less prejudice and people who think they are better than others. ― Werley Nortreus

In the beginning, it was all black and white. – Maureen O’Hara

I see the world in black and white, and I don’t like compromising. -Greta Thunburg

In tragedy, it’s hard to find a good resolution; it’s not black and white: it’s a big fog of gray.― Paul Dano

America is a country founded on guns. It’s in our DNA. It’s very strange but I feel better having a gun. I really do. I don’t feel safe, I don’t feel the house is completely safe if I don’t have one hidden somewhere. That’s my thinking, right or wrong. – Brad Pitt

There’s something strange and powerful about the black-and-white world of imagery. – Stefan Kanfer

If everything isn’t black and white, I say, ‘Why the hell not?’ – John Wayne

Loo, life is black and white. You don’t know what’s good for you, because you don’t see the black and white! You don’t see where the black lines end and where the white lines begin! You’re going to grow up to be no good if you keep on that way. It’s impractical. I only have one child, and I won’t have her growing up to be impractical. I can’t think of a worse thing to be than impractical! ― C. JoyBell C.

The natural response of the old-timers is to build a strong moral wall against the outside. This is where the world starts to be painted in black and white, with saints inside, and sinners outside the wall. -Mary Douglas

I work in color sometimes, but I guess the images I most connect to, historically speaking, are in black and white. I see more in black and white – I like the abstraction of it.― Mary Ellen Mark

Everything’s not black and white. We choose to make bad decisions or not. – Will Arnett

Color tends to corrupt photography and absolute color corrupts it absolutely. Consider the way color film usually renders blue sky, green foliage, lipstick red, and the kiddies’ playsuit. These are four simple words that must be whispered: color photography is vulgar. – Walker Evans

Old Bette Davis movies are all she watches now. There’s one where Bette Davis’s character goes blind, and as the credits rolled my mother said, ‘Must be what they mean when they talk about Bette Davis’s eyes. ― Jean-Luke Swanepoel,

War’s not black and white; it’s gray. If you don’t fight in the gray area, you’re going to lose. – Marcus Luttrell

The natural response of the old-timers is to build a strong moral wall against the outside. This is where the world starts to be painted in black and white, with saints inside, and sinners outside the wall.- Mary Douglas

Things are not quite as simple always as black and white.― Doris Lessing

I’m a multi-faceted woman and person, like all women are, there’s no black and white. We have shades of grey in the middle. And even many more colors that other people don’t see. – Shakira

In black and white there are more colors than in 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

Ones people see the eyes of the law. They will stop respecting the law. Eyes of the law are when the law treated other people as special and different than others.― De philosopher DJ Kyos

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