Winslow Homer Quotes

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

With the black and white films, one was concerned with tone... You had to make sure that the tone of your dress was not the same tone as the curtains, for instance.

In the beginning it was all black and white.

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

I work in colour sometimes, but I guess the images I most connect to, historically speaking, are in black and white. I see more in black and white - I like the abstraction of it.

...everything looks worse in black and white.

My paintings do not have a center, but depend on the same amount of interest throughout.

A painting that is well composed is half finished.

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

It is not the form that dictates the color, but the color that brings out the form.

Life is a mixing of all kind of things: comedy and tragedy going together.

So what is discord at one level of your being is harmony at another level.

The reverse side also has a reverse side.

A kiss without a moustache, they said then, is like an egg without salt; I will add to it: and it is like Good without Evil.

Our everyday lives exist with comedy and tragedy next to each other.

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 meaning.

I wish I could do a black and white film.

If they were siblings, 'Hairless Toys' would be the nice child, and 'Take Her Up to Monto' is more of a problem child.

Everything always looked better in black and white. Everything always looked as if it were the first time; there's always more people in a black and white photograph. It just makes it seem that there were more people at a gig, more people at a football match, than with colour photography. Everything looks more exciting.

I think most people's conversations are as light as they are dark. That's how life is.

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 black and white one.

Everybody's got a serious side and everybody's got a fun side.

I love shifting between being super cute and aggressive. It's funny.

Black implies white self implies other

A light here required a shadow there.