Abstract Quote by Joel Sternfeld

Looking at a black and white photograph, you are already looking at a strange world.

— Joel Sternfeld

What difference does it make whether you're looking at a photograph or looking at a still life in front of you? You still have…

— Chuck Close

Sometimes I photograph without looking through the viewfinder. I have mastered that well enough, it is almost as if I were looking through it.

— Josef Koudelka

A good photograph was never what I was looking for. I like to have a point. I had to have a point or I…

— Diana Vreeland

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

— Jose Parla

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

Doesn't the world inside a black and white photograph seem more real? It's because the real world is losing its color

— Tablo

“I sat on my Dad's bed and flipped through the page after empty page. No stamps. No exotic locales. No travel-worn smudges or creases.…

— Miriam Toews

“Meaning is also a colour and that’s why there are many colours in the black and white photos!”

— Mehmet Murat ildan

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

— Mehmet Murat ildan

“footage of him and Bonnie Rae into an old black and white photo of Bonnie and Clyde, she began to tell their story, as…

— Amy Harmon

“A boring colourful photo is always black and white; an interesting black and white photo is always colourful!”

— Mehmet Murat ildan