Art Quote by Edward Weston

In black and white there are more colors than color photography, because you are not blocked by any colors so you can use your…

— Anders Petersen

Black and white is a very minimalist art form and unlike color photographs does not pretend to mimic the world in a manner similar…

— Roger Ballen

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…

— Astrid Kirchherr

I believe that the essence of photography is black and white. Color is but a deviance.

— Sarah Moon

I don't have anything against colour. It is just not my first preference. I have always found black and white photographs to be quieter…

— Michael Kenna

One very important difference between color and monochromatic photography is this: in black and white you suggest; in color you state. Much can be…

— Paul Outerbridge

I started as a black-and-white teenage photographer, and I'm still there decades after. In some ways, the genre is almost gone. I am thinking…

— Hedi Slimane

...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…

— Ansel Adams

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

Some have said that if you take a great picture in color and take away the color, you'll have a great black-and-white picture. But…

— Jay Maisel

I work in colour sometimes, but I guess the images I most connect to, historically speaking, are in black and white. I see more…

— Mary Ellen Mark

In the '70s, in Britain, if you were going to do serious photography, you were obliged to work in black-and-white. Color was the palette…

— Martin Parr