Colour Quote by Gabriel Lippmann

White is poison to a picture: use it only in highlights.

— Peter Paul Rubens

White is the color of decomposition. White is also no color. White is nothing. In photography, the paper is white, next comes the light,…

— Dieter Appelt

It is generally admitted that the most beautiful qualities of a color are in its transparent state, applied over a white ground with the…

— Maxfield Parrish

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

White must be the lightest color in a picture.

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

From what has been said it is also evident, that the Whiteness of the Sun's Light is compounded all the Colours wherewith the several…

— Isaac Newton

To see color as form means looking at the image in a new way, trying to free oneself from absorption in subject matter.

— Cole Weston

The plate at each point only sends back to the eye the simple colour imprinted. The other colours are destroyed by interference. The eye…

— Gabriel Lippmann

Light is therefore color.

— J. M. W. Turner

“The color white is a blank canvas, just waiting to be written on. Compared to other more stimulating colors it is a refreshing change,…

— Chantal Larocque

Whether you are Minor White or Robert Frank, almost every photograph starts with an act of pure description - a window. But every now…

— Alec Soth

Nowadays, people shoot digitally and it's all in color, but you press a button and it all goes to black and white. But it's…

— David Lynch