Best 100+ Black And White Quotes | Motivational Life Quotes

Black And White Quotes | Many photographers consider black and white photography to be the most challenging and rewarding genre. In black and white photography, the tones and contrast are what create the image, rather than the colors.

This can be a challenge for photographers who are used to working with color, but it can also produce some stunning results. There are a few things to keep in mind when shooting black and white photography. First, pay attention to the tones in your scene.

Look for areas of contrast, where the light and dark tones meet. These areas will be where the black and white tones are most pronounced, and can create some really beautiful effects. Second, think about the texture of the subjects in your scene. In black and white photography, texture can be just as important as tone.

Look for ways to accentuate the textures in your scene, whether it’s the roughness of a stone wall or the smoothness of a baby’s skin. Finally, don’t be afraid to experiment. Black and white photography can be very forgiving, so don’t be afraid to try new things.

Shoot in different lighting conditions, experiment with different compositions, and most importantly, have fun! Let’s read some great quotes about black and white.

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

– Brian Molko

“I don’t see the world completely in black and white. Sometimes I do.”

– Benicio Del Toro

“I don’t believe there’s two sides to every story. It’s black and white. There’s right and wrong.”

– Joe Wurzelbacher

“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

“Life is not black and white; there is some gray nuance to it.”

– Pilou Asbaek

“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 isn’t always black and white. You’re not always sure you’re right. At least I’m not.”

– Brad Paisley

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

– Lord Thorneycroft

“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

“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

“Life isn’t black and white, so don’t hate the criminal, hate the crime.”

– Aly Johnson

“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

“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

“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

“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

“Everything’s not black and white. We choose to make bad decisions or not.”

– Will Arnett

“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

“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

“When I was young, I had a very clear point of view on things in life, on moral questions. There was a black and white viewpoint on my world. As I’ve gotten older, I see the grey areas appear.”

– Joel Edgerton

“We’re so quick to go to make things black and white, and to put things in their box. But everything is this mixture, and that’s what this world is, is this blend of different things.”

– Matisyahu

“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

“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

“I don’t look at things in black and white. There are big gray areas. There’s a lot of slippage.”

– Mark Bradford

“We were living in a tumultuous time when the world was upside down. Freeman produced a show that was black and white, the good guys versus the bad guys.”

– James MacArthur

“We don’t live in a world that’s black and white.”

– Shannon Elizabeth

“I wanted to be Amish when I was a kid. You just wear black and white, what could be better? One less thing to worry about.”

– Anderson Cooper

“Law in Ukraine is not black and white; it is shades of gray.”

– Brandon Webb

“My characters make incomprehensible decisions until you stand in their shoes. Then it makes more sense. Life is very rarely black and white, and most people are trying to do their best. I try not to judge.”

– Jojo Moyes

“Choices of right or wrong are not presented to you in black and white. If they were, I’m sure most people would choose white.”

– Bethany McLean

“I don’t think anyone is black and white and I think we change our minds and our attitudes about certain things as we grow to our maturity.”

– Giancarlo Esposito

“There’s no black and white in this world; it’s all grey. That’s what people are like. No one thinks they’re a baddie. Everyone thinks they’re trying to do their bit to make the world a better place.”

– Riz Ahmed

“I really see food as subjective. It’s a creative outlet. It’s something that you do for fun. It’s a gray area. It’s not black and white or right and wrong.”

– Graham Elliot

“Most kids are smarter than most grown-ups. Kids see the world in black and white. They look through all the garbage and see a world run by fools and dullards and lazy people. And there’s nothing they can do about it because they have no power.”

– Dav Pilkey

“We’re all complex creatures, and we shouldn’t have to pick one thing to be passionate about. Life isn’t black and white, so we shouldn’t live that way.”

– Cassadee Pope

“Mortals. Everything is so black and white to you.”

– Kami Garcia

“Light is meaningful only in relation to darkness, and truth presupposes error. It is these mingled opposites which 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 know why we work, my husband and I. We just do. We are black and white, yin and yang.”

– Heidi Klum

“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

“Books bring alluring colors to our mundane black and white world.”

– Caleb Reese

“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 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

“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

“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

“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, saints inside, and sinners outside the wall.”

– Mary Douglas

“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

“When we don’t have information, we go to the simplest outlook, to black and white. But then we have to lie to ourselves. Black is never as black as you’re painting it and white is never as white.”

– Patricia Sun

“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

“Human beings are more or less formulas. Pun intended. We are not any one thing that is mathematically provable. We are more or less than we are anything. We are more or less kind, or more or less not. More or less selfish, happy, wise, lonely.”

– Adi Alsaid

“I know the difference between right and wrong. I understand the rules. But today I feel that the rules have been blurred, because today they were literally on my front doorstep.”

– Cecelia Ahern

“Black and white is salt and pepper of colors, for life tastes bland without them.”

– Vikrmn

“The truth never had any shades of grey, there was always a discernible line between black and white.”

– Kenneth Eade

“The world isn’t black and white. No one does pure good or pure bad. It’s all gray. Therefore, no one is better than anyone else. Knowing only gray, you conclude that all grays are the same shade. You mock the simplicity of the two-color view, yet you replace it with a one-color view.”

– Marc Stiegler

“I’ve noticed that truth is very rarely found in the extremes, in the black and white. You’ll usually find it right in the middle, in the gray. It’s just much harder to find that way.”

– Unknown

“It was uncontrollable, overpowered by others, these colors within me, staring out at a black and white world; without spurning about, wanting to rule, too much negligence, they left me no choice, but to surrender. It was time, had to crash the lightning, and bow to the rain, where promises have broken, and pain still reigns. Had to give up myself and bring life to the world, had to.”

– Anthony Liccione

“Traditionally, there have been two major strains of motivation, or perceived motivations, in anarchist politics: Duty and joy. like any duality, it is easy to fall into the trap of simplistic black and white labels, ignoring the more realistic continuum of grays. Instead, think of these two motivations as the end points on a continuum, illuminating everything in between.”

– Curious George Brigade

“When I learned about the gray existing between the black and white of absolute terms, I began to experience more peace. The more I expanded my gray areas (more than 50 shades), the more peace I experienced in my life.”

– David W. Earle

“Black and white thinking limits understanding and feedback, two necessary ingredients for successful resolution in creative conflict and successful understanding.”

– David W. Earle

“The ignorance of the world often makes people believe that life should be black and white, that you must choose sides. And so the world of colorful gradients goes unadmired.”

– A.J. Darkholme

“There’s no right or wrong when one chooses to be happy. It’s just a battle between one’s own happiness and the judgment of others.”

– Nishan Panwar

“There are times when you want to say or feel things but you don’t, as we end up thinking if it’s right or wrong. But we forget feelings do not have boundaries unlike the norms of life made by us. Sometimes it’s better to let them flow.”

– Nidhi Saini

“You don’t have to be right or wrong; just open yourself to love.”

– Unknown

“Our religious belief usurps the place of our sensations, our imaginations of our judgment. We no longer look to actions, trace their consequences, and then deduce the rule; we first make the rule, and then, right or wrong, force the action to square with it.”

– Francis Wright

“Love is not guaranteed and can’t be defined, it’s what you perceive it to be. It may be right or it may be wrong. But life is about finding that out yourself.”

– Unknown

“Sometimes it’s hard to pick right from wrong. The best thing we can do is go with our heart and hope it all goes well.”

– Unknown

“When it comes to being happy, there is no right or wrong. It’s just a battle between your happiness and their judgement.”

– Unknown

“The human dilemma is not whether to do right or wrong, but rather to do right when it matters the most, and wrong when it matters the least.”

– Unknown

“Things in law tend to be black and white. But we all know that some people are a little bit guilty, while other people are guilty as hell.”

– Marie Louise De La Ramee

“Do what you believe is right. Don’t let anyone make the decision of right or wrong for you except God.”

– Unknown

“Morality: The theory that every human act must either be right or wrong, and that 99% of them are wrong.”

– Henry Louis Mencken

“I do not say a proverb is amiss when aptly and reasonably applied, but to be forever discharging them, right or wrong, hit or miss, renders conversation insipid and vulgar.”

– Miguel De Cervantes

“Know the difference between principles based on right or wrong vs. principles based on personal gain, and consider the basis of your own principles.”

– Marilyn Vos Savant

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

– Vikrmn

“No person is completely wicked, just as no person is perfect. We are all grey.”

– Shinde Sweety

“It’s not easy taking your own advice, accepting what you don’t like hearing, and seeing the grey amongst the black & white.”

– April Mae Monterrosa

“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.

“For grey matter, there is no black and white. If you think in black and white, then you do not use enough brain functions.”

– Petek Kabakci

“Black and white is mix of toughest simplicity and easiest complexity.”

– Vikrmn

“Things are always either black or white. The grey in between is only a confusion.”

– Ljupka Cvetanova

“Nothing is ever black and white. You should know that by now. It’s all how you survive the grey.”

– Pepper Winters

“Don’t ever let the light of your soul dim, even if the world seems black and white.”

– Tilicia Haridat

“Even when your life is full of color, you still need to be reminded that things come in black and white.”

– Anthony T. Hincks

“If you look beyond the lies, then you will see the truth. Remember: Just because it’s black and white, doesn’t automatically make it a zebra.”

– Anthony T. Hincks

“It’s because I know that life is really black and white that I miss my life of colors.”

– Anthony T. Hincks

“A zebra will never see the funny side of things because he is always thinking in black & white.”

– Anthony T. Hincks

“Science attempts to analyze how things and people and animals behave; it has no concern whether this behavior is good or bad, is purposeful or not. But religion is precisely the quest for such answers: whether an act is right or wrong, good or bad, and why.”

– Warren Weaver

“You know, one of the things I like about this world, or at least I like about the way we’re presenting this world, is these issues are terribly complicated, not nearly as black and white as we’re led to believe.”

– Aaron Sorkin

“To be one’s self, and unafraid whether right or wrong, is more admirable than the easy cowardice of surrender to conformity.”

– Irving Wallace

“I’m completely liberated from that way of thinking; which is a jaded way of thinking and I think that when you are in love you can quickly get lost in love and not have different instincts that can be right or wrong.”

– Unknown

“It’s not about right or wrong; it’s the point of being strong enough to make a decision.”

– Unknown

“I don’t think there are right or wrong choices and I doubt fate. But I do know the good lord will always guide his children no matter what.”

– Unknown

“This party is old and uninviting, participants all in black and white, you enter in full-blown Technicolor.”

– Brandon Boyd

“I come to you with only karate, empty hands. I have no weapons, but should I be forced to defend myself. My principles, or my honor, should it be a matter of life or death, right or wrong. Then here are my weapons, karate my empty hands.”

– Ed Parker

“Every judgment of conscience, be it right or wrong, be it about things evil in themselves or morally indifferent, is obligatory, in such wise that he who acts against his conscience always sins.”

– Thomas Aquinas

“Light is meaningful only in relation to darkness, and truth presupposes error. It is these mingled opposites which 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

“My country, right or wrong’ is a thing no patriot would ever think of saying except in a desperate case. It is like saying ‘My mother, drunk or sober.’”

– Gilbert K Chesterton

“A theory has only the alternative of being right or wrong. A model has a third possibility: it may be right, but irrelevant.”

– Manfred Eigen

“By the way, the secret of speaking French is confidence. Whether you are right or wrong, you don’t hesitate.”

– Joseph Epstein

“Any time you stop looking at evil as a black and white thing, it’s helpful. So the fact that there won’t be any obligatory Islamic terrorist stereotypes in movies anymore, that’d be helpful.”

– John Cusack

“Whether his policy was right or wrong, he built up the glory of the nation.”

– Sam Houston

“I do not want to go into its physical reasons: the construction of the human body is different from that of carnivorous animals. But man’s intelligence is such that it can be utilized to defend anything he does, whether right or wrong.”

– Morarji Desai

“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

“If there’s one thing that everyone can agree on, it’s that, right or wrong, they hate the press.”

– Mo Rocca

“As I’ve said repeatedly, Republicans are very good at describing things in black and white; Democrats are very good at describing the eleven shades of gray.”

– Joseph C. Wilson

“So, I still seized the power, but I felt that if I officially made myself the boss, in black and white, it would be too intimidating for the other producers and the other men who worked on the show. In other words, I had the power, but I gave them the title.”

– Marlo Thomas

“That’s why for Zakk Wylde’s ‘Black Label Society,’ the colors are black and white. There are no gray issues. Life is black and it’s white. There’s no in-between.”

– Zakk Wylde

“In the first place, when there is a policy of intentional aggression, inspired by a desire to get possession of the territory or the trade of another country, right or wrong, a pretext is always sought.”

– Elihu Root

“Any preoccupation with ideas of what is right or wrong in conduct shows an arrested intellectual development.”

– Oscar Wilde

“Things are not quite so simple always as black and white.”

– Doris Lessing

“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

“Being glamorous is about strength and confidence. It’s black and white. Dramatic. You have to be strong.”

– Catherine Zeta-Jones

“Black and white can transform a scene into something magical.”

– Rob Sheppard

“Photographs open doors into the past, but they also allow a look into the future.”

– Sally Mann

“All the beauty of life is made up of light and shadow.”

– Leo Tolstoy

“Black and white photography erases time from the equation.”

– Jason Peterson

“When you reduce life to black and white, you never see rainbows.”

– Rachel Houston

“Being glamorous is about strength and confidence. It’s black and white- dramatic.”

– Catherine Zeta-Jones

“Life is in color, but black and white is more realistic.”

– Samuel Fuller

“Color is descriptive. Black and white is interpretive.”

– Eliott Erwitt

“There’s something strange and powerful about black-and-white imagery.”

– Stefan Kanfer

“Color is everything, black and white is more.”

– Dominic Rouse

“Life is not black and white; there is some gray nuance to it.”

– Pilou Asbaek

“Most of the stories I have covered in 45 years have been gray stories.”

– Jim Lehrer

“I love the gray area between right and wrong.”

– Dan Brown

“Life isn’t black and white. It’s a million gray areas, don’t you find?’’

– Ridley Scott

“The color of truth is gray.”

– Andre Gide

“In the beginning it was all black and white.”

– Maureen O’Hara

“If everything isn’t black and white, I say, ‘Why the hell not?’”

– John Wayne

“Everything is very black and white for me. I don’t really like playing mind games.”

– Zayn Malik

“It’s really rare in life that a situation is as black and white as we tend to paint it.”

– Aesop Rock

“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

“Everything’s not black and white. We choose to make bad decisions or not.”

– Will Arnett

“In the black and white journey of life, one day… someone will come to fill colors in it.”

– D.S.

“I don’t see the world completely in black and white. Sometimes I do.”

– Benicio Del Toro

“There are infinite shades of grey. Writing often appears so black and white.”

– Rebecca Solnit

“Life isn’t always black and white. You’re not always sure you’re right. At least I’m not.”

– Brad Paisley

“Life isn’t black and white, so don’t hate the criminal, hate the crime.”

– Aly Johnson

“I’m very black and white about what I like or don’t like, and I’ve always been that way.”

– Ryan Murphy

“Gray is the color… the most important of all… absent of opinion, nothing, neither/nor.”

– Gerhard Richter

“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

“Sorrows are like thunderclouds, in the distance, they look black, over our heads scarcely gray.”

– Jean Paul

“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

“Sometimes we see things as being black or white. Perhaps you have two categories of coworkers in your mind – the good ones and the bad ones. Or, maybe you look at each project as either a success or a failure. Recognize the shades of gray, rather than putting things in terms of all good or all bad.”

– Amy Morin

“Gray goes with gold. Gray goes with all the colors. I’ve done gray-and-red painting, and gray and orange go so well together. It takes a long time to make gray because gray has a little bit of color in it.”

– Ellsworth Kelly

“Everything always looked better in black and white. Everything always looked as if it were the first time; there are always more people in a black and white photograph. It just makes it seem that there were more people at a gig, more people at a football match, than with color photography. Everything looks more exciting.”

– Jack Lowden

“I know these will become old stories someday and our pictures will become old photographs and we’ll all become somebody’s Mom or Dad, but right now, these moments are not stories. This is happening and I’m here.”

– Logan Lerman

“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

“There is always something sad about the old photographs, it is because we know that people in the photos are gone forever.”

– Mehmet Murat Ildan

“What I like about photographs is that they capture a moment that’s gone forever, impossible to reproduce.”

— Karl Lagerfeld

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

– Joel Sternfield

“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

“Music photographs in black and white are timeless. I can definitely recount more black and white music photographs I love than I can color ones.”

– Dean Sherwood

“With black and white photography, what you have to say counts more than the way you say it.”

– Gian Marco Marano

“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

“One very important difference between color and monochromatic photography is this: in black and white you suggest; in color you state. Much can be implied by suggestion, but statement demands certainty… absolute certainty.”

– Paul Outerbridge

“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 Easton Adams

“What I love about Black & White photographs is that they’re more like reading the book than seeing the movie.”

– Jennifer Price

“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

“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 which must be whispered: color photography is vulgar.”

– Walker Evans

“Black and white creates a strange dreamscape that color never can.”

– Jack Antonoff

“While the absence of color may contribute to our appreciation, at the same time it is important to assert that black and white is not photography minus color. Not at all. It’s much more subtle than turning down the color saturation on your television.”

– John Beardsworth

“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

“When images are in black and white, they seem timeless. When you see Carrie Otis in an ad from 1989 next to an ad with Klara Wester from 2009, you don’t see a 20-year difference between the pictures.”

– Paul Marciano

“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

“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

“There are some old photographs from where if you take anything out, even a chicken or a little bird, the magic will disappear.”

– Mehmet Murat Ildan

“Life is better in black and white.”

– Unknown

“Although humans see reality in colour, for me, black and white has always been connected to the image’s deeper truth, to its most hidden meaning.”

– Peter Lindbergh

“We are all somewhere or the other a little grey, not black and white. We have our imperfections.”

– Kriti Sanon

“I don’t find anything black and white; I find grey in every person, and that is what excites me.”

– Vetrimaaran

“Black and white means photography to me. It’s much easier to take a good color photograph, but you can get more drama into a black and white one.”

– Astrid Kirchherr

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

– Brian Molko

“Black and white photography has the potential to make any photographer a better photographer.”

– Rob Sheppard

“To see in colors is a delight for the eye, but to see in black and white is a delight for the soul.”

– Andri Cauldwell

“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

“We’re so quick to make things black and white and to put things in their box. But everything is this mixture – and that’s what this world is – is this blend of different things.”

– Matisyahu

“Maybe black and white is the best medium for landscapes, I don’t know.”

– Fay Godwin

“When images are in black and white, they seem timeless. When you see Carrie Otis in an ad from 1989 next to an ad with Klara Wester from 2009, you don’t see a 20-year difference between the pictures.”

– Paul Marciano

“I work in colour 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 always looked better in black and white. Everything always looked as if it were the first time; there’s always more people in a black and white photograph. It just makes it seem that there were more people at a gig, more people at a football match, than with colour photography. Everything looks more exciting.”

– Jack Lowden

“With the black and white films, one was concerned with tone.”

– Julie Harris

“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 shooting a portrait in black and white you are not distracted by the colours and it is much less confused; this allows me to capture the character of my sitter. My portraits are very calm and, I hope, timeless. I strive to make each portrait a true reflection of the individual.”

– Antonia Deutsch

“Black and white photography is truly quite a ‘departure from reality’, and the transition from one aspect of visual magic to another was not as complete as many imagine.”

– Ansel Adams

“Black-and-white always looks modern, whatever that word means.”

– Karl Lagerfeld

“Black and white photography erases time from the equation.”

– Jason Peterson

“For black and white landscapes I concentrate on the graphic elements of a scene, and the nature of the environment, whether it is stormy or tranquil.”

– Antonia Deutsch

“I don’t see the world completely in black and white. Sometimes I do.”

– Benicio Del Toro

“While the absence of color may contribute to our appreciation, at the same time it is important to assert that black and white is not photography minus color. Not at all. It’s much more subtle than turning down the color saturation on your television.”

– John Beardsworth

“Architectural photography allows me to tame cities of iron and concrete and find a ‘charm’ within them. With my studio photography shooting plants and flowers, I can keep some affiliation with nature. These two themes often recur in my work and complement each other: the cold, sharp aesthetics and straight lines of architecture are opposed by the delicacy, curves, sensitivity and poetry of nature. These themes have influenced me to switch to the world of black and white to accentuate this darker but more poetic theme.”

– Guy Gagnon

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

– Vikrmn

“Working in black and white makes me feel like a painter, not a photographer. Shooting this way allows me to focus my attention on the light and shade, textures, shapes and expressions. It’s really a matter of personal choice, but in my opinion black and white can lead to a more abstract reading of reality, which is arguably more demanding and more challenging to produce. Here photographers cannot use flattering colours or coloured light to distract the eye. You cannot cheat in black and white.”

– Guy Gagnon

“Music photographs in black and white are timeless. I can definitely recount more black and white music photographs I love than I can colour ones.”

– Dean Sherwood

“The special factor about black and white photography is that it doesn’t just copy the reality, but it represents it with its own language.”

– Gian Marco Marano

“I’ve been forty years discovering that the queen of all colors is black.”

– Henri Mattise

“Color is everything, black and white is more.”

– Dominic Rouse

“I enjoy using black and white when creating fashion images and portraits as it tends to isolate the model. When shooting black and white, it makes you think differently. Your mindset has to change from colour and you have to think in monochrome.”

– James Nader

“Take your time with your composition; black and white images need to be strong to work well. With my black and white images I am always looking for bold textures, contrast between layers and lines in the composition to draw my viewers through the image.”

– Helen Rushton

“Great color contrasts are great material for black and white.”

– John Beardsworth

“As a child, I used to watch old black and white movies and was captivated by the imagery. I think that this influenced my decision to specialize in black and white from an extremely early stage. For me black and white is a purer image which allows greater drama and more expression, be it a portrait or a landscape.”

– Antonia Deutsch

“While colour photography gets ever closer to reproducing a ‘real image’, comparable to that witnessed by the eye, mono provides a level of abstraction that can evoke a sense of fantasy, dream or escape.”

– Tim Savage

“Black and white photography has an enhanced sobriety and gravitas that can be well suited to formal events such as weddings.”

– Tim Savage

“Black and white images take you beyond what most people photograph.”

– Rob Sheppard

“One very important difference between color and monochromatic photography is this: in black and white you suggest; in color you state. Much can be implied by suggestion, but statement demands certainty… absolute certainty.”

– Paul Outerbridge

“It’s an obvious opportunity for black and white when a scene contains little color but lots of texture.”

– John Beardsworth

“The black and white photographer is a musician, transposing notes on the fly, visualizing a final print from the world of color.”

– Ted Dillard

“Good black and white photography is not about the removal of color!”

– Rob Sheppard

“My philosophy, like color television, is all there in black and white.”

– Monty Python

“Admiring black and white photos is often what first starts people out on their own road to becoming keen photographers.”

– John Beardsworth

“A natural self-limitation in photography is to leave out the color and present the world in black and white.”

– Harold Davis

“I think every subject deserves to be treated as just what they are, an individual. It’s quite often I will think ‘this is going to look great in black and white’ though. In fact, I’m not sure I’ve ever seen a black and white photograph and thought ‘that would look great in colour’.”

– Dean Sherwood

“A good color picture is usually a good black and white too.”

– John Beardsworth

“Landscapes are where photography began, and in the beginning, black and white was all there was.”

– Rob Sheppard

“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

“Nothing conveys mood and emotion quite like a good black and white image. But simply removing colour from an image is unlikely to achieve this.”

– Robin Whalley

“Black and white has an unsurpassed ability to convey character.”

– David Prakel

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