Black and white photography Quotes

“Love is the color in the black and white photography!”

— Mehmet Murat ildan

To some extent, the cult surrounding black-and-white photography is based on nostalgia.

— Rene Burri

Be yourself. I much prefer seeing something, even it is clumsy, that doesn't look like somebody else's work.

— William Klein

It is an illusion that photos are made with the camera... they are made with the eye, heart and head.

— Henri Cartier-Bresson

When you photograph people in color you photograph their clothes. When you photograph people in black and white, you photograph their soul!

— Ted Grant

Black and white photography is truly quite a 'departure from reality', and the transition from one aspect of visual magic to another…

— Ansel Adams

In fact, I probably learned more about photography from studying black-and-white photography in those magazines [Look Magazine and LIFE Magazine] than I…

— Vilmos Zsigmond

...one sees differently with color photography than black-and-white... in short, visualization must be modified by the specific nature of the equipment and…

— Ansel Adams

A lot of photographers think that if they buy a better camera they'll be able to take better photographs. A better camera…

— Arnold Newman

Black-and-white photography, which I was doing in the very early days, was essentially called art photography and usually consisted of landscapes by…

— William Eggleston

One teacher told me that my work belonged in the trash. That day I ran out of the classroom and ended up…

— Jose Parla

I just get the will to do it. I don’t plan a photograph in advance… I work by impulse. No philosophy. No…

— Manuel Alvarez Bravo

Life wanted faces that would express what we wanted to tell. Not just the unusual or striking face, but the face that…

— Margaret Bourke-White

I am inspired by great food, theater, books, the beach, black-and-white photography, and great vocalists, like Dianne Reeves, Alice Smith, and Shirley…

— Erica Tazel