201+ Black and White Quotes

Last Updated on September 12, 2024 by James Wilson

In a world full of colour, black and white imagery continues to captivate our imagination and provoke deep thought. This collection of over 201 black and white quotes explores the power of contrast in life, art, and philosophy.

From profound insights on morality to artistic expressions and decision-making, these quotes highlight the beauty of simplicity and the complexity of human experience.

Whether you’re seeking clarity, inspiration, or a fresh perspective, this compilation offers a diverse range of wisdom from thinkers, artists, and visionaries who have embraced the stark yet nuanced world of black and white.

Dive into these timeless reflections that challenge us to see beyond shades of gray and find meaning in life’s most fundamental contrasts.

Life’s Contrasts: Embracing the Shades of Gray

In a world of extremes, life often presents itself in shades of gray. This section explores quotes that highlight the nuanced nature of existence, encouraging readers to embrace the complexity between black and white perspectives.

  • “Life isn’t black and white. It’s a million gray areas, don’t you find?” – Ridley Scott
  • “It’s about you. If you win, it’s you; if you lose, it’s you. Black and white. Nowhere to hide.” – Greg Rusedski
  • “Everything is not black and white. I’m really interested in the gray area – not justifying it, not glorifying it, not condoning it, but at least having people see there’s a genesis for every event in our lives.” – Sterling K. Brown
  • “I don’t see the world completely in black and white. Sometimes I do.” – Benicio Del Toro
  • “The world isn’t black and white. No one does pure good or pure bad. It’s all gray.” – Patricia Briggs
  • “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.” – Nicki Minaj
  • “There’s so much gray to every story – nothing is so black and white.” – Lisa Ling
  • “I prefer black and white and portrait photography. I like old, you know, interesting faces, so I think black and white brings out the contrast.” – Brooklyn Beckham
  • “I don’t believe there’s two sides to every story. It’s black and white. There’s right and wrong.” – Joe Wurzelbacher
  • “I’m very black and white about what I like or don’t like, and I’ve always been that way.” – Ryan Murphy
  • “Nothing is black-and-white, except for winning and losing, and maybe that’s why people gravitate to that so much.” – Steve Nash
  • “I tend to see the world in terms of black and white.” – Graham Norton
  • “The human brain works as a binary computer and can only analyze the exact information-based zeros and ones (or black and white). Our heart is more like a chemical computer that uses fuzzy logic to analyze information that can’t be easily defined in zeros and ones.” – Naveen Jain
  • “Life isn’t always black and white. You’re not always sure you’re right. At least I’m not.” – Brad Paisley
  • “The world is not black and white; there are lots of shades of grey. There are good things and bad things in every era, and I think it’s kind of very blindfolded to say one era was wonderful, as it was wonderful, but there were a lot of bad things as well.” – Iris Apfel
  • “I don’t look at things in black and white. There are big gray areas. There’s a lot of slippage.” – Mark Bradford
  • “It’s good to play something that’s black and white, and a guy that sees right and wrong. I’ve never played a character like that.” – David Lyons
  • “I love the gray area between right and wrong.” – Dan Brown
  • “Things are not quite so simple always as black and white.” – Doris Lessing
  • “We are all somewhere or the other a little grey, not black and white. We have our imperfections.” – Kriti Sanon

Philosophical Insights: Black and White Wisdom

Philosophical Insights: Black and White Wisdom

This section delves into profound philosophical quotes that use black and white imagery to convey deep truths about life, existence, and human nature.

  • “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
  • “It’s not that Shakespeare is frivolous, but you spend your time just getting people to dress up in other people’s costumes and pretending to be people that they’re not. That’s a critical difference in the way that a photographer or a filmmaker works.” – David Hockney
  • “There are infinite shades of grey. Writing often appears so black and white.” – Rebecca Solnit
  • “I think it’s because it was an emotional story, and emotions come through much stronger in black and white. Colour is distracting in a way, it pleases the eye but it doesn’t necessarily reach the heart.” – Kim Hunter
  • “Life is not black and white; there is some gray nuance to it.” – Pilou Asbaek
  • “Everything is very black and white for me. I don’t really like playing mind games.” – Zayn Malik
  • “I prefer to work with grey characters rather than black and white.” – Amish Tripathi
  • “The most colorful thing in the world is black and white, it contains all colors and at the same time excludes all.” – Vikrmn
  • “When you’re young, you look at television and think, There’s a conspiracy. The networks have conspired to  inconsiderate us down. But when you get a little older, you realize that’s not true. The networks are in business to give people exactly what they want.” – Steve Jobs
  • “Things are not quite so simple always as black and white.” – Doris Lessing
  • “I’m very black and white about what I like or don’t like, and I’ve always been that way.” – Ryan Murphy
  • “The great thing about getting older is that you become more mellow. Things aren’t as black and white, and you become much more tolerant. You can see the good in things much more easily rather than getting enraged as you used to do when you were young.” – Maeve Binchy
  • “Black and white creates a strange dreamscape that color never can.” – Jack Antonoff
  • “Life isn’t black and white. It’s a million gray areas, don’t you find?” – Ridley Scott
  • “I don’t believe there’s two sides to every story. It’s black and white. There’s right and wrong.” – Joe Wurzelbacher
  • “Everything is not black and white. I’m really interested in the gray area – not justifying it, not glorifying it, not condoning it, but at least having people see there’s a genesis for every event in our lives.” – Sterling K. Brown
  • “The world is not black and white; there are lots of shades of grey. There are good things and bad things in every era, and I think it’s kind of very blindfolded to say one era was wonderful, as it was wonderful, but there were a lot of bad things as well.” – Iris Apfel
  • “I don’t see the world completely in black and white. Sometimes I do.” – Benicio Del Toro
  • “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
  • “It’s about you. If you win, it’s you; if you lose, it’s you. Black and white. Nowhere to hide.” – Greg Rusedski
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Photography and Art: The Power of Monochrome

This section explores quotes about the artistic impact of black and white imagery in photography and visual arts, highlighting its ability to capture emotions and essence.

  • “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
  • “Color is descriptive. Black and white is interpretive.” – Eliott Erwitt
  • “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
  • “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
  • “I prefer black and white and portrait photography. I like old, you know, interesting faces, so I think black and white brings out the contrast.” – Brooklyn Beckham
  • “Black and white creates a strange dreamscape that color never can.” – Jack Antonoff
  • “There’s something strange and powerful about black-and-white imagery.” – Stefan Kanfer
  • “I think it’s because it was an emotional story, and emotions come through much stronger in black and white. Colour is distracting in a way, it pleases the eye but it doesn’t necessarily reach the heart.” – Kim Hunter
  • “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 on this order in color.” – Ralph Gibson
  • “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
  • “I love black and white photography, there’s something about it that just seems to cut to the truth of things.” – Jennifer Niven
  • “When I take a black-and-white portrait, it’s not particularly meant to please you. It’s meant to talk to you; it’s meant to shame you; it’s meant to scream out at you, and it has a message.” – Don McCullin
  • “The most colorful thing in the world is black and white, it contains all colors and at the same time excludes all.” – Vikrmn
  • “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
  • “Black and white is salt and pepper of colors, for life tastes bland without them.” – Vikrmn
  • “I’ve been fascinated by the idea that evil is the absence of empathy.” – John Connolly
  • “The eye should learn to listen before it looks.” – Robert Frank
  • “To see in color is a delight for the eye but to see in black and white is a delight for the soul.” – Andri Cauldwell
  • “When you’re shooting in black and white, you really have to rely on the strength of your compositions to tell the story.” – David Burnett
  • “Black and white photography erases time from the equation.” – Jason Peterson

Good vs. Evil: Moral Clarity in Quotes

Good vs. Evil: Moral Clarity in Quotes

This section presents quotes that explore the moral dichotomy between good and evil, using black and white imagery to illustrate ethical concepts and choices.

  • “The line between good and evil is permeable and almost anyone can be induced to cross it when pressured by situational forces.” – Philip Zimbardo
  • “There is no good and evil, there is only power and those too weak to seek it.” – J.K. Rowling
  • “Inside each of us, there is the seed of both good and evil. It’s a constant struggle as to which one will win. And one cannot exist without the other.” – Eric Burdon
  • “The battleline between good and evil runs through the heart of every man.” – Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
  • “There is no black-and-white situation. It’s all part of life. Highs, lows, middles.” – Van Morrison
  • “I don’t believe there’s two sides to every story. It’s black and white. There’s right and wrong.” – Joe Wurzelbacher
  • “The world isn’t black and white. No one does pure good or pure bad. It’s all gray.” – Patricia Briggs
  • “Life isn’t black and white. It’s a million gray areas, don’t you find?” – Ridley Scott
  • “Everything is not black and white. I’m really interested in the gray area – not justifying it, not glorifying it, not condoning it, but at least having people see there’s a genesis for every event in our lives.” – Sterling K. Brown
  • “It’s about you. If you win, it’s you; if you lose, it’s you. Black and white. Nowhere to hide.” – Greg Rusedski
  • “The world is not black and white; there are lots of shades of grey. There are good things and bad things in every era, and I think it’s kind of very blindfolded to say one era was wonderful, as it was wonderful, but there were a lot of bad things as well.” – Iris Apfel
  • “I don’t see the world completely in black and white. Sometimes I do.” – Benicio Del Toro
  • “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
  • “There are infinite shades of grey. Writing often appears so black and white.” – Rebecca Solnit
  • “I prefer to work with grey characters rather than black and white.” – Amish Tripathi
  • “The great thing about getting older is that you become more mellow. Things aren’t as black and white, and you become much more tolerant. You can see the good in things much more easily rather than getting enraged as you used to do when you were young.” – Maeve Binchy
  • “It’s good to play something that’s black and white, and a guy that sees right and wrong. I’ve never played a character like that.” – David Lyons
  • “I love the gray area between right and wrong.” – Dan Brown
  • “We are all somewhere or the other a little grey, not black and white. We have our imperfections.” – Kriti Sanon
  • “Nothing is black-and-white, except for winning and losing, and maybe that’s why people gravitate to that so much.” – Steve Nash

Clarity and Simplicity: The Beauty of Black and White

This section focuses on quotes that celebrate the elegance and simplicity of black and white, both in aesthetics and in decision-making.

  • “I am a black and white person. I don’t really do grey.” – Vanessa Selbst
  • “When I look at color, I always see black and white first. It’s a struggle to see color.” – Darryl Carter
  • “Black and white creates a strange dreamscape that color never can.” – Jack Antonoff
  • “The most colorful thing in the world is black and white, it contains all colors and at the same time excludes all.” – Vikrmn
  • “I prefer black and white and portrait photography. I like old, you know, interesting faces, so I think black and white brings out the contrast.” – Brooklyn Beckham
  • “Color is descriptive. Black and white is interpretive.” – Eliott Erwitt
  • “Everything is very black and white for me. I don’t really like playing mind games.” – Zayn Malik
  • “I’m very black and white about what I like or don’t like, and I’ve always been that way.” – Ryan Murphy
  • “It’s about you. If you win, it’s you; if you lose, it’s you. Black and white. Nowhere to hide.” – Greg Rusedski
  • “Black and white is salt and pepper of colors, for life tastes bland without them.” – Vikrmn
  • “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
  • “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 on this order in color.” – Ralph Gibson
  • “To see in color is a delight for the eye but to see in black and white is a delight for the soul.” – Andri Cauldwell
  • “When you’re shooting in black and white, you really have to rely on the strength of your compositions to tell the story.” – David Burnett
  • “Black and white photography erases time from the equation.” – Jason Peterson
  • “I love black and white photography, there’s something about it that just seems to cut to the truth of things.” – Jennifer Niven
  • “When I take a black-and-white portrait, it’s not particularly meant to please you. It’s meant to talk to you; it’s meant to shame you; it’s meant to scream out at you, and it has a message.” – Don McCullin
  • “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
  • “The eye should learn to listen before it looks.” – Robert Frank
  • “There’s something strange and powerful about black-and-white imagery.” – Stefan Kanfer
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Contrasts in Life: Embracing Opposites

This section explores quotes that highlight the stark contrasts in life and the importance of embracing both extremes to gain a fuller understanding of our world.

  • “What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.” – Crowfoot
  • “In order to see birds it is necessary to become a part of the silence.” – Robert Lynd
  • “Life is like a piano. White keys are happy moments and black keys are sad moments. But remember both keys are played together to give sweet music.” – Unknown
  • “The optimist sees the donut, the pessimist sees the hole.” – Oscar Wilde
  • “In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer.” – Albert Camus
  • “Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.” – Carl Jung
  • “The loudest one in the room is the weakest one in the room.” – Frank Lucas
  • “To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.” – Oscar Wilde
  • “The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.” – Alan Watts
  • “We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.” – Oscar Wilde
  • “The deeper that sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain.” – Khalil Gibran
  • “The world is full of magic things, patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper.” – W.B. Yeats
  • “What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • “The more I see, the less I know for sure.” – John Lennon
  • “The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.” – Socrates
  • “We must let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for us.” – Joseph Campbell
  • “The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.” – E.E. Cummings
  • “It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.” – William Shakespeare
  • “The only way to do great work is to love what you do.” – Steve Jobs
  • “Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.” – Anais Nin

Decision Making: Black and White Choices

This section focuses on quotes about decisive action and the importance of making clear choices in life, represented by the stark contrast of black and white.

  • “In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing.” – Theodore Roosevelt
  • “It’s not hard to make decisions when you know what your values are.” – Roy Disney
  • “Sometimes it’s the smallest decisions that can change your life forever.” – Keri Russell
  • “I am a black and white person. I don’t really do grey.” – Vanessa Selbst
  • “Decisiveness is a characteristic of high-performing men and women. Almost any decision is better than no decision at all.” – Brian Tracy
  • “The risk of a wrong decision is preferable to the terror of indecision.” – Maimonides
  • “You can’t make decisions based on fear and the possibility of what might happen.” – Michelle Obama
  • “It’s about you. If you win, it’s you; if you lose, it’s you. Black and white. Nowhere to hide.” – Greg Rusedski
  • “Decisions are the frequent fabric of our daily design.” – Don Yaeger
  • “The hardest decisions in life are not between good and bad or right and wrong, but between two goods or two rights.” – Joe Andrew
  • “Think 100 times before you take a decision, but once that decision is taken, stand by it as one man.” – Muhammad Ali Jinnah
  • “Sometimes you make the right decision, sometimes you make the decision right.” – Phil McGraw
  • “Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • “Stay committed to your decisions, but stay flexible in your approach.” – Tony Robbins
  • “It doesn’t matter which side of the fence you get off on sometimes. What matters most is getting off. You cannot make progress without making decisions.” – Jim Rohn
  • “The quality of decision is like the well-timed swoop of a falcon which enables it to strike and destroy its victim.” – Sun Tzu
  • “You can’t make decisions based on fear and the possibility of what might happen.” – Michelle Obama
  • “We are the creative force of our life, and through our own decisions rather than our conditions, if we carefully learn to do certain things, we can accomplish those goals.” – Stephen Covey
  • “Life is a matter of choices, and every choice you make makes you.” – John C. Maxwell
  • “The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity.” – Amelia Earhart

Balance and Harmony: Yin and Yang in Quotes

This section explores quotes that emphasize the importance of balance and harmony in life, using the black and white imagery reminiscent of the yin and yang concept.

  • “Life is about balance. Be kind, but don’t let people abuse you. Trust, but don’t be deceived. Be content, but never stop improving yourself.” – Zig Ziglar
  • “The calm and balanced mind is the strong and great mind; the hurried and agitated mind is the weak one.” – Wallace D. Wattles
  • “Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance, order, rhythm and harmony.” – Thomas Merton
  • “Balance is not something you find, it’s something you create.” – Jana Kingsford
  • “Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.” – Albert Einstein
  • “The best and safest thing is to keep a balance in your life, acknowledge the great powers around us and in us. If you can do that, and live that way, you are really a wise man.” – Euripides
  • “There is no such thing as work-life balance. Everything worth fighting for unbalances your life.” – Alain de Botton
  • “Letting go helps us to live in a more peaceful state of mind and helps restore our balance. It allows others to be responsible for themselves and for us to take our hands off situations that do not belong to us.” – Melody Beattie
  • “The key to keeping your balance is knowing when you’ve lost it.” – Anonymous
  • “Balance is the perfect state of still water. Let that be our model. It remains quiet within and is not disturbed on the surface.” – Confucius
  • “Your hand opens and closes, opens and closes. If it were always a fist or always stretched open, you would be paralyzed. Your deepest presence is in every small contracting and expanding, the two as beautifully balanced and coordinated as birds’ wings.” – Rumi
  • “The challenge of work-life balance is without question one of the most significant struggles faced by modern man.” – Stephen Covey
  • “To go beyond is as wrong as to fall short.” – Confucius
  • “The hardest thing to find in life is balance – especially the more success you have, the more you look to the other side of the gate.” – Celine Dion
  • “Balance is not better time management, but better boundary management. Balance means making choices and enjoying those choices.” – Betsy Jacobson
  • “I always try to balance the light with the heavy – a few tears of human spirit in with the sequins and the fringes.” – Bette Midler
  • “There is no decision that we can make that doesn’t come with some sort of balance or sacrifice.” – Simon Sinek
  • “The art of living lies not in eliminating but in growing with troubles.” – Bernard M. Baruch
  • “The simplification of life is one of the steps to inner peace. A persistent simplification will create an inner and outer well-being that places harmony in one’s life.” – Peace Pilgrim
  • “The secret of success is to be in harmony with existence, to be always calm to let each wave of life wash us a little farther up the shore.” – Cyril Connolly
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Clarity in Thought: Black and White Thinking

This section presents quotes that advocate for clear thinking and decisive action, often represented by the stark contrast of black and white.

  • “The most confused you will ever get is when you try to convince your heart and spirit of something your mind knows is a lie.” – Shannon L. Alder
  • “Clarity of mind means clarity of passion, too; this is why a great and clear mind loves ardently and sees distinctly what it loves.” – Blaise Pascal
  • “Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.” – Carl Jung
  • “Clarity and simplicity are the antidotes to complexity and uncertainty.” – General George Casey
  • “Everything is very black and white for me. I don’t really like playing mind games.” – Zayn Malik
  • “I’m very black and white about what I like or don’t like, and I’ve always been that way.” – Ryan Murphy
  • “It’s about you. If you win, it’s you; if you lose, it’s you. Black and white. Nowhere to hide.” – Greg Rusedski
  • “When things are clear, you don’t need any explanation.” – Haruki Murakami
  • “Clarity of vision is the key to achieving your objectives.” – Tom Steyer
  • “The greatest clarity comes from silence.” – Leonard Jacobson
  • “Clarity precedes success.” – Robin Sharma
  • “The more clear you are in your head, the more you are going to achieve for yourself.” – Jasprit Bumrah
  • “Clarity is the most important thing. I can compare clarity to pruning in gardening. You know, you need to be clear. If you are not clear, nothing is going to happen. You have to be clear. Then you have to be confident about your vision. And after that, you just have to put a lot of work in.” – Diane von Furstenberg
  • “Clarity is the counterbalance of profound thoughts.” – Luc de Clapiers
  • “Your mind, while blessed with permanent memory, is cursed with lousy recall. Written goals provide clarity. By documenting your dreams, you must think about the process of achieving them.” – Gary Ryan Blair
  • “Clarity and consistency are not enough: the quest for truth requires humility and effort.” – Tariq Ramadan
  • “Truth is by nature self-evident. As soon as you remove the cobwebs of ignorance that surround it, it shines clear.” – Mahatma Gandhi
  • “The beauty is that through disappointment you can gain clarity, and with clarity comes conviction and true originality.” – Conan O’Brien
  • “Clarity is power. The more clear you are about what you want the more likely you are to achieve it.” – Billy Cox
  • “To me, there is no greater way to achieve clarity than to run alone, or share miles with a trusted friend.” – Kristin Armstrong

Creativity and Expression: The Art of Black and White

This final section explores quotes about artistic expression and creativity through the lens of black and white imagery, highlighting its power in various art forms.

  • “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
  • “Color is descriptive. Black and white is interpretive.” – Eliott Erwitt
  • “Black and white creates a strange dreamscape that color never can.” – Jack Antonoff
  • “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
  • “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
  • “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
  • “To see in color is a delight for the eye but to see in black and white is a delight for the soul.” – Andri Cauldwell
  • “When I take a black-and-white portrait, it’s not particularly meant to please you. It’s meant to talk to you; it’s meant to shame you; it’s meant to scream out at you, and it has a message.” – Don McCullin
  • “The most colorful thing in the world is black and white, it contains all colors and at the same time excludes all.” – Vikrmn
  • “I love black and white photography, there’s something about it that just seems to cut to the truth of things.” – Jennifer Niven
  • “Black and white photography erases time from the equation.” – Jason Peterson
  • “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.” – Ralph Gibson
  • “When you’re shooting in black and white, you really have to rely on the strength of your compositions to tell the story.” – David Burnett
  • “There’s something strange and powerful about black-and-white imagery.” – Stefan Kanfer
  • “I think it’s because it was an emotional story, and emotions come through much stronger in black and white. Colour is distracting in a way, it pleases the eye but it doesn’t necessarily reach the heart.” – Kim Hunter
  • “Black and white is salt and pepper of colors, for life tastes bland without them.” – Vikrmn
  • “The eye should learn to listen before it looks.” – Robert Frank
  • “I prefer black and white and portrait photography. I like old, you know, interesting faces, so I think black and white brings out the contrast.” – Brooklyn Beckham
  • “In the theater, everything is ephemeral. Everything is almost weightless and without a very clear definition of how you made it.” – Robert Wilson
  • “Life is not black and white; there is some gray nuance to it.” – Pilou Asbaek

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