Amount Quote by Matthew Collings

One of the interesting things I discovered is that in the late 19th century, painters actually had black-and-white copies made of their own paintings.…

— Robert Longo

I've always loved black, and I realized that, from the beginning, man went into completely dark caves to paint. They painted with black too.…

— Pierre Soulages

All painting worth its name, unless one is talking about black and white, must include the idea of color as one of its necessary…

— Eugene Delacroix

There are different kinds of painting, some with lights and some without, but still if you look at any painting here (in the light)…

— Jean-Luc Godard

At first I had some idea that the absence of color made the work more physical. Early on I was very involved with the…

— Jasper Johns

Little by little, I've reached the stage of using only a small number of forms and colors. It's not the first time that painting…

— Joan Miro

If you have used colour throughout most of your artistic life, try just black and white... it will take your painting to another dimension…

— David Luiz

I first came up with the idea for the colour-chart pictures back in 1966, and my preoccupation with the topic culminated in 1974 with…

— Gerhard Richter

Black art has always existed. It just hasn't been looked for in the right places.

— Romare Bearden

I would have artists be convinced that the supreme skill and art in painting consists in knowing how to use black and white... because…

— Leon Battista Alberti

Few of the early houses in New England were painted, or colored, as it was called, either without or within. Painters do not appear…

— Alice Morse Earle

So long as people expect paintings to be simply coloured photographs they get no individuality and, in the case of portraits, no characterisation.

— William Dobell