Abstract Quote by Roger Ballen

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 photography is truly quite a 'departure from reality', and the transition from one aspect of visual magic to another was not…

— Ansel Adams

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

— Sarah Moon

Each time I make a photograph I celebrate the life I love and the beauty I know and the happiness I have experienced. All…

— Ruth Bernhard

Black and white is abstract; color is not. Looking at a black and white photograph, you are already looking at a strange world.

— Joel Sternfeld

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

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

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 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

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

Life shows you different colors but Black & White are the reality.

— Swaroop

“Black and white are nothing more than lofty ideals in our minds, the standards by which we try to judge things, and map out…

— Anonymous