Mary Ellen Mark Quotes

Nina knew the power of black and white images. Sometimes a thing was its truest self when the colors were stripped away.

Maybe black and white is the best medium for landscapes, I don't know.

No color will ever be brighter for me than black and white.

Which is probably the reason why I work exclusively in black and white... to highlight that contrast.

...everything looks worse in black and white.

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

I love... anything in black and white. Just put it on the TV, I'll watch.

Black and white photography is truly quite a 'departure from reality', and the transition from one aspect of visual magic to another was not as complete as many imagine.

The image is an image.

I find still photographs make me quite self-conscious.

A photograph is always invisible, it is not it that we see.

I don't paint things. I only paint the difference between things.

In the beginning it was all black and white.

A photographer must choose a palette as painters choose theirs.

My quest, through the magic of light and shadow, is to isolate, to simplify, and to give emphasis to form with the greatest clarity.

With the black and white films, one was concerned with tone.

Color can do anything that black-and-white can.

I did not move into developing or processing color. I stayed with black and white. I still think to this day that I prefer to work in black and white if it has to do with poetry or anything other than specific reality. I have worked in color when I thought it was the appropriate way to express the thought that I was working on.

Black-and-white always looks modern, whatever that word means.

Pure drawing is an abstraction. Drawing and colour are not distinct, everything in nature is coloured.

Painting picture by picture, I followed the impressions my eye took in at heightened moments. I painted only memories, adding nothing, no details that I did not see. Hence the simplicity of the paintings, their emptiness.

I was extravagant in the matter of cameras - anything photographic - I had to have the best. But that was to further my work. In most things I have gone along with the plainest - or without.

Black and white creates a strange dreamscape that color never can.

Just simple things - I like black and white, monochrome; I like suits.

I'm inspired by art - in whatever form it takes. I love when I see a painting or a photograph that captures my attention.