Believe Quote by Michael Kenna

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

There's something really appealing about the simplicity of black-and-white images.

— Joseph Gordon-Levitt

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

I think it's because it was an emotional story, and emotions come through much stronger in black and white. Colour is distracting in a…

— Kim Hunter

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

Full-color images lack the poignancy of monochrome... Black-and-white film inherently peels off interesting images from the world; it sees things we do not see,…

— Peter C Bunnell

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

We wonder why black and white pictures capture soul. I think it's cause without color, we aren't drawn to the makup, or the color…

— Ritu Ghatourey

Although humans see reality in colour, for me, black and white has always been connected to the image's deeper truth, to its most hidden…

— Peter Lindbergh

I like black and white films. I don't exactly know why - probably because there is a stylization which is removed from actual life,…

— Norman McLaren

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

— Sarah Moon

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