Michael Dickinson Quotes

The United States is not a nation of black and white people. Any fool can see that white people are not really white, and that black people are not black.

I remember being on a black-and-white set all day and then going out into daylight and being amazed by the colour.

Because of that I don't care when I read in the newspaper that I am colourblind. I went through a red light in my car and I stopped when I before a green light. So I must be really colourblind, eh?

I read that prior to the advent of color TV, most people dreamed in black and white.

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

Ivory may not be so white as snow, but the whole Arctic continent does not make ivory black.

The mountain trembled like an earthquake. Dust flew into the sky. And the rock turned dark red, like the color of blood'. 'How would you know?' Asks Sindhi cap. 'You only have a black and white television'. 'But it's a very good one. You can almost see colours.

Based on mixtures of the three primary colours, along with black and white, I come up with a certain number of possible colours and, by multiplying these by two or four, I obtain a definite number of colour fields that I multiply yet again by two, etc. But the complete realization of this project demands a great deal of time and work.

...one sees differently with color photography than black-and-white... in short, visualization must be modified by the specific nature of the equipment and materials being used.

Colors are the deeds/ and sufferings of light.

The most beautiful colors laid on at random, give less pleasure than a black-and-white drawing.

All painting worth its name, unless one is talking about black and white, must include the idea of color as one of its necessary supports, in the same way that it includes chiaroscuro, proportion, and perspective.

There are people in the world who won't watch a movie that's in black and white. There's got to be a special place in hell for them.

For those of you watching in black and white, Spurs are in the all-yellow strip.

Suffice it to say that black and white are also colors... for their simultaneous contrast is as striking as that of green and red, for instance.

I am the kind of person that is drawn to colors against my will.

Brent Berlin and Paul Kay in Basic Color Terms demonstrate exhaustively and empirically, the very simple thesis that anywhere in the world, as a language develops and acquires names for color, the colors always enter in the same order. The most primitive are black and white. Then red. Then either green or yellow.

My goal is to formulate a new color theory based on the full spectrum of visible light.

I simply try to put down colors which render my sensation

Whether the psychological effect of color is direct...or whether it is the outcome of association, is open to question. The soul being one with the body, it may well be possible that a psychological tremor generates corresponding one through association.

Color is one of the great things in the world that makes life worth living to me and as I have come to think of painting it is my efforts to create an equivalent with paint color for the world, life as I see it.

Blue is the only color that maintains its own character in all its tones…it will always stay blue.

A world of contradictions, wherein everything is gray and almost nothing is black and white.

The great thing about the moon landing is that my grandmother got the first color TV in order to be able to see the moon landing that was in black and white.

It's always intrigued me that amidst the group called slaves there were individuals who were extremely able, who were extremely colorful, who were powerful personalities, who by no means fit the usual images of slaves. They were people who, through their personalities and abilities, were very respected in the community where they lived by both black and white.