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“Design in black and white. Add color for emphasis, when your design is complete.”

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Author:Diane Wilson

“Everything does come from nature. That's where you get new ideas. Just draw the landscape. I felt doing it with a bit of burnt wood was also good because I was drawing burnt wood with a piece of wood. I wanted to do black and white. After using color, I thought black and white would be good. You can have color in black and white. There is color in them, actually.”

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Author:David Hockney

“We always see the Holocaust in terms of black-and-white images, barking Germans, cowering Jews. We know very well-known fixed places like Auschwitz, Birkenau, Treblinka, and Beltzec. Instead, war can live in a couple having a spat, when we say, "That was a real war." We very rarely have the Holocaust live in the terms of today. And I think that's a problem, because it becomes ancient history.”

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Author:Yann Martel

“Before Elvis, everything was in black and white. Then came Elvis. Zoom, glorious Technicolor.”

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Author:Keith Richards

“It will be difficult if people can't get past their prejudices; I don't mean Black and White; I mean people automatically assume because a film has a predominantly Black cast, that it is a particular quality of film.”

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Author:Romany Malco

“Life is much more complex than the black-and-white sound bites that you get on television. There are nuances and shades of gray.”

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Author:Joe Berlinger

“It was an honor to work with Samantha Morton on this Casablanca-esque, silent-film-esque, Americana photobooth Woolworth's hay day period piece of surrealism/ realism/ story time tell-tale-ism, black and white 35 mm film, washed in strange light, over this love hate tune, heartbreak song, life-goes-on lullaby, The Last Goodbye. It's a doorway into the future of the fatal past-tense. Get it?”

“Looking at a black and white photograph, you are already looking at a strange world.”

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Author:Joel Sternfeld

“There are so many aspects of human sexuality that we're afraid to talk about, because people still don't understand it. It's not just black and white, you know?”

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Author:Sasha Grey

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

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Author:Damian Loeb

“Underground and alternative comics existed in a vacuum for years, where money really wasn't an issue. No one would get into doing a black-and-white comic because they thought it might be a route to riches.”

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Author:Adrian Tomine

“People want black and white answers, but it's not one thing or another. I think the only way we're going to make good things is to inspire people and make them feel as though what they're watching is real.”

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Author:Kim Longinotto

“In a world of increasing grey areas, we are becoming more and more entrenched in black and white positions.”

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Author:Paul Bettany

“I feel like the world we live in seems to be full of an increasingly grey area, but the culture that we live in seems to be getting really entrenched in black and white positions, and I think it's urgent to talk about that because it's going to kill us all.”

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Author:Paul Bettany

“A story should be managed so that it should suggest interesting things to the reader instead of the author's doing all the thinking for him, and setting it before him in black and white.”

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Book:The Country of the Pointed Firs: And Selected Short Fiction

Source: The Country of the Pointed Firs: And Selected Short Fiction

“Victims of the violence are black and white, rich and poor, young and old, famous and unknown. They are most important of all, human beings whom other human beings loved and needed.”

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Book:Make Gentle the Life of the World: The Vision of Robert F. Kennedy

Source: Make Gentle the Life of the World: The Vision of Robert F. Kennedy

“Parodies of commercials are by no means new and have been popular going back to black-and-white TV shows of the '50s.”

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Author:Dan Aykroyd

“I really see food as subjective. It's a creative outlet. It's something that you do for fun. It's a gray area. It's not black and white or right and wrong.”

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Author:Graham Elliot

“The black and white lemur, the one that relaxes on that branch, they actually have day care, like kindergartens; where all the mothers come together and they put all the babies into this one nest and they let dad watch it while they go out and have food and have a good time and then they come back in a few hours. We've never seen that in other primates.”

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Author:Patricia Wright

“If I could have had my own way, I would have confined myself to black and white.”

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Book:Degas

Source: Degas

“The majority of South Africans, black and white, recognize that apartheid has no future. It has to be ended by our own decisive mass action in order to build peace and security. The mass campaign of defiance and other actions of our organization and people can only culminate in the establishment of democracy.”

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Author:Nelson Mandela

“In order for us, black and white, to disenthrall ourselves from the harshest slavemaster, racism, we must disinter our buried history.... We are all the Pilgrim, setting out on this journey.”

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Book:The Studs Terkel Reader: My American Century

Source: The Studs Terkel Reader: My American Century

“No one is black and white or good or bad or happy or sad or what have you. [All have] particular idiosyncrasies that make them fascinating and that's how I tend to approach a character.”

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Author:Cary Elwes