Black-and-white Quotes

Watching television in those days was not the same experience as it is today. After years of listening to radio, we found the black-and-white images mesmerizing. (Annette Funicello)
I wanted to learn how to paint rather than just doing black-and-white work. View quote
Bill Sienkiewicz
I love to unwind and watch movies, especially those from the classic black-and-white era. View quote
Fred Savage
Color can do anything that black-and-white can. View quote
Vincente Minnelli
I used to stay up very late at night, much later than I probably should have for such a youngster, and I used to watch very old black-and-white movies with, you know, Bette Davis and Joan Crawford, but I remember watching them thinking 'I could do that'... Even though I wasn't inclined at all to actually become an actress. I mean, that wasn't something that was... in the stars for me, no pun intended. View quote
Michelle Pfeiffer
The impressionistic method leads into a complete splitting and dissolution of all areas involved in the composition, and color is used to create an overall effect of light. The color is, through such a shading down from the highest light in the deepest shadows, sacrified an degraded to a (black-and-white) function. This leads to the destructions of the color as color. View quote
Hans Hofmann
Remember those black-and-white films with Frank Sinatra? Those guys looked like men and they were only 27! Listen to Otis Redding singing 'Try A Little Tenderness'. That was a man who understood what a man has to know in the world. Show me a real man now! Where are they? View quote
Chrissie Hynde
There is no black-and-white situation. It's all part of life. Highs, lows, middles. View quote
Van Morrison
In every art we are always obliged to return to the accepted means of expression, the conventional language of the art. What is a black-and-white drawing but a convention to which the beholder has become so accustomed that with his mind's eye he sees a complete equivalent in the translation from nature? View quote
Eugène Delacroix
Security people are often the black-and-white kind of people that I can't stand. I think the OpenBSD crowd is a bunch of masturbating monkeys, in that they make such a big deal about concentrating on security to the point where they pretty much admit that nothing else matters to them. View quote
Linus Torvalds
It is a curve each of them feels, unmistakably. It is the parabola. They must have guessed, once or twice - guessed and refused to believe - that everything, always, collectively, had been moving toward that purified shape latent in the sky, that shape of no surprise, no second chance, no return. Yet they do move forever under it, reserved for its own black-and-white bad news certainly as if it were the rainbow, and they its children.... (Thomas Pynchon)
The angel said, "I like black-and-white films more than color because they're more artificial. You have to work harder to overcome your disbelief. It's sort of like prayer. View quote
Jonathan Carroll
Our culture thrives on black-and-white narratives, clearly defined emotions, easy endings, and so, this thrust into complexity exhausts. View quote
Caroline Knapp
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. View quote
Lisa Marie Presley
People will always prefer black-and-white over shades of grey, and so there will always be the temptation to hold overly-simplified beliefs and to hold them with excessive confidence. View quote
Thomas Gilovich
It was 100 feet of 16 mm black-and-white film of a car coming to a stop sign, and driving off. I had to decide how to frame and light it. It was magic. There was a sense of mystery. View quote
Conrad Hall
John Kerry doesn't think in terms of black-and-white. He's all gray, and he looks at all sides of the issues. That makes people think he likes to be devil's advocate. Whatever you say, he'll challenge you on. View quote
Douglas Brinkley
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. View quote
Herb Ritts
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. There's some divine order to it, whether it's ugly or beautiful. View quote
Isaiah Washington
All actors bring something unexpected to the role because they have to translate what's on the page and make a real character out of the black-and-white text that's there in the script. View quote
Joe Johnston
One aspect of my mum's personality that has influenced me is her love of Hollywood and the golden era of black-and-white films. (Rebecca Hall)
The perceived wisdom is that people do not go in large numbers to black-and-white movies anymore - which is a great shame, but I'd love to make a black-and-white movie one day. View quote
Sam Mendes
Nothing is black-and-white, except for winning and losing, and maybe that's why people gravitate to that so much. View quote
Steve Nash
Matt, you are suffering from a disease of youth-you expect moral problems to have nice, neat, black-and-white answers. View quote
Robert A. Heinlein
Her voice was like a line from an old black-and-white Jean-Luc Godard movie, filtering in just beyond the frame of my consciousness. View quote
Haruki Murakami