Top Black And White Quotes Collection

Discover a curated collection of Black And White quotes. Find inspiration, motivation, and wisdom from the best quotes in this category.

Image of Sydney Pollack
When you spend your life acting and being other people, as opposed to being the one person that you are, you learn that life is gray sometimes, not black and white. That what you thought was true isn't necessarily true if you switch sides.
- Sydney Pollack
Collection: Black And White
Image of Bill Sienkiewicz
I wanted to learn how to paint rather than just doing black-and-white work
- Bill Sienkiewicz
Collection: Black And White
Image of Alexander Theroux
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
Collection: Black And White
Image of Madeleine Albright
If intelligence were a television set, it would be an early black-and-white model with poor reception, so that much of the picture was gray and the figures on the screen were snowy and indistinct. You could fiddle with the knobs all you wanted, but unless you were careful, what you would see often depended more on what you expected or hoped to see than on what was really there.
- Madeleine Albright
Collection: Black And White
Image of Tami Hoag
The world isn't black and white, Annie, it's shades of grey.
- Tami Hoag
Collection: Black And White
Image of David Sheff
A world of contradictions, wherein everything is gray and almost nothing is black and white.
- David Sheff
Collection: Black And White
Image of Austin Osman Spare
For I am I: ergo, the truth of myself; my own sphinx, conflict, chaos, vortex—asymmetric to all rhythms, oblique to all paths. I am the prism between black and white: mine own unison in duality.
- Austin Osman Spare
Collection: Black And White
Image of Kate Bornstein
…gender is not sane. It's not sane to call a rainbow black and white.
- Kate Bornstein
Collection: Black And White
Image of Steve Nash
Nothing is black-and-white, except for winning and losing, and maybe that’s why people gravitate to that so much.
- Steve Nash
Collection: Black And White
Image of Harry Turtledove
...Do you see things in black and white, or are there shades of gray for you?" "I hope there's gray...Black and white make things easier, but only if you don't want to think.
- Harry Turtledove
Collection: Black And White
Image of Tim O'Reilly
Share what you do profusely, because it will be remixed by others into something new, rich and strange.
- Tim O'Reilly
Collection: Black And White
Image of Thomas Gilovich
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
- Thomas Gilovich
Collection: Black And White
Image of Van Morrison
The blues - there's no black and white - it's the truth.
- Van Morrison
Collection: Black And White
Image of Julie Anne Peters
People don't change. There are two kinds of people in the world: winners and losers. Black and white. I don't know where gray fits in, or if you can even live in that shade.
- Julie Anne Peters
Collection: Black And White
Image of Chris Heimerdinger
There are only two forces at work in this world- black and white. Only people are grey.
- Chris Heimerdinger
Collection: Black And White
Image of John Boorman
The resistance to black-and-white is huge, in the way that you have to sell the film. It's difficult to distribute around the world.
- John Boorman
Collection: Black And White
Image of John Boorman
Up until the middle to late '60s, it was a choice to film in black-and-white or color. But then television became so vital to a film's finance, and television won't show black-and-white. So that killed it off, really.
- John Boorman
Collection: Black And White
Image of Luanne Rice
Judgment is easy: it is black and white, as brutal as a gavel strike.
- Luanne Rice
Collection: Black And White
Image of Diane Wilson
Design in black and white. Add color for emphasis, when your design is complete.
- Diane Wilson
Collection: Black And White
Image of E. L. James
I do not look at the world in terms of black and white - and I find people who do rather scary. I think it's all shades of grey.
- E. L. James
Collection: Black And White
Image of Will Arnett
Everything's not black and white. We choose to make bad decisions or not. I wanted to explore that and shine a light on it. Chip is trying to be a better person and lead a better life. His methods are just super flawed.
- Will Arnett
Collection: Black And White
Image of Michael Schudson
Expensive, well-executed, and familiar ads convince the investors, as nothing in the black and white tables of assets and debits can, that the company is important and prosperous.
- Michael Schudson
Collection: Black And White
Image of Susan Rothenberg
I started to try to be a colorist, although secretly thinking of myself as somewhat of a black and whiteist.
- Susan Rothenberg
Collection: Black And White
Image of E. J. Hughes
I try to do much of the necessary alteration on the black and white [cartoons] rather than leave it to be done on the paintings.
- E. J. Hughes
Collection: Black And White
Image of Peter Schjeldahl
Black and white can show how something is. Color adds how it is, imbued with temperatures and humidities of experience.
- Peter Schjeldahl
Collection: Black And White
Image of Johannes Itten
Between black and white there throbs the universe of chromatic phenomena.
- Johannes Itten
Collection: Black And White
Image of Akif Pirincci
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
Collection: Black And White
Image of Dominic Rouse
Colour is everything, black and white is more.
- Dominic Rouse
Collection: Black And White
Image of Barnett Newman
When painters feel the need to make a shift toward self-discovery, they turn to black and white for a time.
- Barnett Newman
Collection: Black And White
Image of Paul Chong Hasang
Light and subject is inseparable. But when it is well integrated, it becomes the work of a fine masterpiece.
- Paul Chong Hasang
Collection: Black And White
Image of Winslow Homer
It is wonderful how much depends upon the relations of black and white A black and white, if properly balanced, suggests colour.
- Winslow Homer
Collection: Black And White
Image of Alan Parker
Period recreation is very difficult unless you make a black and white movie.
- Alan Parker
Collection: Black And White
Image of Sherman Alexie
"I used to think the world was broken down by tribes," I said. "By black and white. By Indian and white. But I know that isn't true. The world is only broken into two tribes: The people who are assholes and the people who are not."
- Sherman Alexie
Collection: Black And White
Image of Bruce Gilden
Everything isn't black and white, but for me it might as well be.
- Bruce Gilden
Collection: Black And White
Image of Isabel Wilkerson
It was illegal for black people and white people to play checkers together in Birmingham. And there were even black and white Bibles to swear to tell the truth on in many parts of the South.
- Isabel Wilkerson
Collection: Black And White
Image of Jean-Pierre Jeunet
I think we're entering a new period of filmmaking that's analogous to switching from black-and-white to color, or from silent to sound. The medium is completely flexible, and it's not bound by anything. If you imagine something, you can do it.
- Jean-Pierre Jeunet
Collection: Black And White
Image of Martin Parr
My black-and-white work is more of a celebration and the color work became more of a critique of society.
- Martin Parr
Collection: Black And White
Image of Paul Schrader
Let's just shoot in black and white. Don't explain why. Have no reason for it. Just do it because it's interesting.
- Paul Schrader
Collection: Black And White
Image of Hiroyuki Sanada
It was a black and white film [at first]. And then it changed to colour film, and I was surprised and culture shocked when I was six or seven years old. And then HD, then 3D now. So what's going? What's coming next? It's so exciting.
- Hiroyuki Sanada
Collection: Black And White
Image of David Heinemeier Hansson
If you're not working on your best idea right now, you're doing it wrong.
- David Heinemeier Hansson
Collection: Black And White
Image of Danila Kozlovsky
I understand that life is not black and white, everything has a different hand, lots of them, I act according to the situation.
- Danila Kozlovsky
Collection: Black And White
Image of Bob Hawke
I hated [Robert Mugabe]. He's one of the worst human beings I've ever met. He treated black and white with equal contempt. He was a horrible human being.
- Bob Hawke
Collection: Black And White
Image of Amy Plum
Life is easier in black and white. It's the ambiguity of a world defined in grays that has stripped me of my confidence and left me powerless.
- Amy Plum
Collection: Black And White
Image of Gregg Allman
It's hard to live your life in color, and tell the truth in black and white.
- Gregg Allman
Collection: Black And White
Image of Michael McKean
There are people in the world who won't watch a movie that's in black and white. There's got to be a special place in hell for them.
- Michael McKean
Collection: Black And White
Image of Samuel Fuller
Life is in color, but black and white is more realistic.
- Samuel Fuller
Collection: Black And White
Image of Niki Lauda
Whenever there is discussion, I make it clear that I do not want any grey zones, just black and white.
- Niki Lauda
Collection: Black And White
Image of Christian Dior
Black and white might be sufficient. But why deprive yourself of color.
- Christian Dior
Collection: Black And White
Image of David E. Hoffman
Today, we've got what seems to me to be binary-choice politics: black and white, ones and zeros, either you are with me or against me. How did we get here?
- David E. Hoffman
Collection: Black And White