Black And White Quotes - Page 7

• 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

  Play, People, Together

  "Great Migration: The African-American Exodus North". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. September 13, 2010.

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• 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

  Believe, Issues, World

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• The most beautiful colors laid on at random, give less pleasure than a black-and-white drawing.

  Aristotle

  Beautiful, Color, Drawing

  Aristotle, George Maximilian Anthony Grube, Donald J. Zeyl (1958). “On Poetry and Style”, p.14, Hackett Publishing

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• I don't see the world completely in black and white. Sometimes I do.

  Benicio Del Toro

  World, Sometimes, White

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• Just telling a story. That's cinema. It's not silent, black and white. It's a simple story that's well made.

  Jean Dujardin

  Simple, Cinema, Stories

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

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• I have visited some places where the differences between black and white are not as profound as they used to be, but I think there is a new form of racism growing in Europe and that is focused on people who are Middle Eastern. I see it.

  Montel Williams

  Thinking, Europe, Differences

  "Montel Williams...still the talk of the town". AskMen Interview,

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• When I drive through a field, I want to see green grass sometimes, and I don't want to see black and white.

  Sam Mendes

  Green, Want, Fields

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• Our world was Northern, black and white, so it was a great thing for my sisters and me to sit down at Christmastime and watch these fabulous MGM musicals. All that color, all those beautiful costumes.

  Tracie Bennett

  Beautiful, Our World, Color

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• Franz Kline, who became known for his black and white paintings, did a whole series of gorgeous landscapes and wonderful portraits that may still hang in Greenwich Village.

  David Amram

  Portraits, Village, Landscape

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• It doesn't matter if it's black-and-white. If a movie has a story that is filled with emotion, you can have as much pleasure, and it's very good for cinema.

  Thomas Langmann

  Cinema, Stories, Matter

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• Prince William looks good in uniform and Man-at-Hackett black and white tie (he has grown up wearing it constantly); less certain in his suits, which sometimes look borderline archaic; and variable in casual. But completely comfortable in the Sloane uniform of non-designer jeans and chocolate-brown suede loafers. He'll look fine in Boden.

  Peter York

  Men, Jeans, Ties

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• I actually don't feel the years passing, although the younger players make sure to remind me of my age. If there's a clip of Bobby Charlton playing or a game's in black and white they'll ask: Were you playing in that Giggsy?

  Ryan Giggs

  Soccer, Football, Player

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• I would have artists be convinced that the supreme skill and art in painting consists in knowing how to use black and white... because it is light and shade that make objects appear in relief.

  Leon Battista Alberti

  Art, Light, Skills

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• When you look at Darling and the Oscars, it has to be luck. It was a black and white film and it was the last time that there was a black and white Oscar.

  Julie Harris

  Luck, Looks, Oscars

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• Even drawing gray hair at all is difficult to render in black and white.

  Alison Bechdel

  Hair, Drawing, Gray

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• In the corporate world, sometimes things aren`t exactly black and white when it comes to accounting procedures.

  George W. Bush

  World, Sometimes, Procedures

  George W. Bush's Press Conference, georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov. July 8, 2002.

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• When painters feel the need to make a shift toward self-discovery, they turn to black and white for a time.

  Barnett Newman

  Discovery, Self, Needs

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• The great black and white draftsman, the sculptor, and the blind man know that form and color are separate. The form itself is what the blind man knows...Color is surface skin that fits over the form.

  John French Sloan

  Men, Color, Skins

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• I did not move into developing or processing color. I stayed with black and white. I still think to this day that I prefer to work in black and white if it has to do with poetry or anything other than specific reality. I have worked in color when I thought it was the appropriate way to express the thought that I was working on

  Leonard Nimoy

  Moving, Inspiration, Reality

  "An Interview With Photographer Leonard Nimoy". Interview with Jason Landry, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 23, 2013.

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• When Black and White are colors and not races, people will still fall in love and discriminate between partners and feel sad and bad and need art that breaks your heart and takes you to those places where pain becomes beauty.

  Marlene Dumas

  Falling In Love, Art, Pain

  Marlene Dumas, Gianni Romano, Angela Vettese (2003). “Marlene Dumas: suspect”, Skira - Berenice

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• Black and white is a very minimalist art form and unlike color photographs does not pretend to mimic the world in a manner similar to the way the human eye might perceive...
  
  Black and white is essentially an abstract way to interpret and transform what one might refer to as reality.

  Roger Ballen

  Art, Eye, Reality

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• 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

  Running, Kids, Lazy People

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• No characters in 'Stay Close,' including the leads, are black and white. I want them to be grey. I think that makes for a much more interesting reading experience, something that will stay with you a little bit longer.

  Harlan Coben

  Reading, Character, Thinking

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• I use very little red. I use blue, yellow, a little green, but especially... black, white and grey. There is a certain need in me for communication with human beings. Black and white is writing.

  Hans Arp

  Communication, Writing, Blue

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• For what one has in black and white, One can carry home in comfort.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Home, Comfort, Possession

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Johann Daniel Falk, Friedrich von Müller (1833). “Characteristics of Goethe: From the German of Falk, Von Müller, &c., with Notes, Original and Translated, Illustrative of German Literature”, p.246

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