Black And White Quotes - Page 15

• In movies we tend make things black and white: you're either this, or you're that.

  Bill Skarsgard

  White, Black

  "Alexander Skarsgård: Interview with a vampire" by Aaron Hicklin, www.theguardian.com. September 10, 2011.

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• I decided to start anew-to strip away what I had been taught, to accept as true my own thinking. This was one of the best times of my life. There was no one around to look at what I was doing, no one interested, no one to say anything about it one way or another. I was alone and singularly free, working into my own, unknown-no one to satisfy but myself. I began with charcoal and paper and decided not to use any color until it was impossible to do what I wanted to do in black and white. I believe it was June before I needed blue.

  Georgia O'Keeffe

  Art, Believe, Thinking

  Georgia O'Keeffe (1977). “Georgia O'Keeffe”, Viking Pr

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• Everything isn't black and white, but for me it might as well be.

  Bruce Gilden

  Might, Wells, White

  FaceBook post by Bruce Gilden from Mar 24, 2010

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• Period recreation is very difficult unless you make a black and white movie.

  Alan Parker

  Periods, Recreation, Difficult

  Guardian Interview, www.theguardian.com. January 7, 2000.

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• Sidney Poitier became a star in part by helping black and white Americans negotiate their new relationship in the post-Civil Rights era.

  Wesley Morris

  Stars, New Relationship, Rights

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• Once you have learned to trust your own voice and allowed that creative force inside you to come out, you can direct it to write short stories, novels, and poetry, do revisions, and so on. You have the basic tool to fulfill your writing dreams. But beware. This type of writing will uncover other dreams you have, too-going to Tibet, being the first woman president of the United States, building a solar studio in New Mexico-and they will be in black and white. It will be harder to avoid them.

  Natalie Goldberg

  Dream, Writing, Voice

  Natalie Goldberg (2016). “Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within”, p.75, Shambhala Publications

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• 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

  Evil, Upset, World

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• News makes things black and white. Documentary filmmaking should do the opposite.

  Robert Greene

  Opposites, Documentaries, News

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• In fact, I probably learned more about photography from studying black-and-white photography in those magazines [Look Magazine and LIFE Magazine] than I did from watching movies here. That's the truth.

  Vilmos Zsigmond

  Photography, Looks, Magazines

  Source: www.pbs.org

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

  Julie Harris

  Tone, Film, Concerned

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• I thought 'The Artist' was a perfect way to find a good balance. The artistic challenge is obvious because the film is black-and-white and its silent, but I did my best to make the movie accessible and easy to watch. I really don't want to make elitist movies. I really try hard to work for the audience. Audiences are smart. They get everything.

  Michel Hazanavicius

  Smart, Artist, Perfect

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• 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

  Personality, Hollywood, Golden

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• With sports, you get the results back right away. With life, it's not always so black and white.

  Rebecca Twigg

  Sports, Results, White

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• There's a lot of life there, but it's a different sort, because there's a lot less immigrants and a lot more racial, the mix of black and white in particular. I've actually never been to their worship for an extended period of time, so I can't comment wisely on it.

  Michael Emerson

  Different, Worship, Periods

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• In my teens I saw the world in only black and white. Now I know that most things exist in a certain gray area. Though it took a while to get here, I now call this gray area home. I once believed that participating in a capitalist economy would be the death of me, but now realize that agonizing over the political implications of every move I make isn’t exactly living.

  Sophia Amoruso

  Moving, Home, Capitalist Economy

  Sophia Amoruso (2014). “#GIRLBOSS”, p.72, Penguin

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• Each time I make a photograph I celebrate the life I love and the beauty I know and the happiness I have experienced. All my photographs are made like that responding to my intuition... After all these years, I am still motivated by the radiance that light creates when it transforms an object into something magical. What the eye sees is an illusion of what is real. The black-and-white image is yet another transformation. What exactly exists, we may never know.

  Ruth Bernhard

  Real, Eye, Light

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• 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.

  Sam Mendes

  Wisdom, Numbers, People

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• 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

  Years, Listening, Television

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• And then I went to visit my sister in the states and all of a sudden it was just like, it's like... it's like the movie Wizard of Oz when all of a sudden it changes from Black and White to glorious Technicolor.

  John Mahoney

  Wizards, My Sister, States

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• ...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 Adams

  Photography, Color, Photographer

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• As sure as God made black and white, what's done in the dark will be brought to the light.

  Johnny Cash

  Dark, Light, Done

  Song: God's Gonna Cut You Down, Album: American V: A Hundred Highways, 2006

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• We want to live in the black and white, but we don't. The world is gray. And, I'm always fascinated by people who are clearly, 'This is black and this is white, and that's the way life is.' Life always has something to say about that.

  Tony Goldwyn

  People, World, Want

  "Tony Goldwyn Talks SCANDAL, Directing JUSTIFIED and GREY’S ANATOMY, and a Drama He’s Developing". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. April 26, 2012.

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• I don't think it's a black and white issue. If a man's family is starving so to speak, I don't think I'll hold it against him for stealing a loaf of bread.

  Zach Braff

  Men, Thinking, Issues

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• Text is linear; it is black and white; it doesn't zoom around the page in 3-D; it isn't intelligent by itself; in fact, in terms of immediate reaction it is quite boring. I can't imagine a single preliterate was ever wowed at the first sight of text, and yet text has been the basis of arguably the most fundamental intellectual transformation of the human species. It and its subforms, such as algebra, have made science education for all a plausible goal.

  Andrea diSessa

  Learning, Intelligent, Sight

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• The prejudice many photographers have against colour photography comes from not thinking of colour as form. You can say things with colour that can't be said in black and white... Those who say that colour will eventually replace black and white are talking nonsense. The two do not compete with each other. They are different means to different ends.

  Edward Weston

  Photography, Art, Creativity

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