Best Monochrome Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Monochrome is erotic because it teaches the eye to imagine what it cannot see.”

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“From black and white to a sepia tone, some dreams come with a tint or in monochrome”

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Author:Shing02

“Pure, existential space was regularly winking at me, each time in a more impressive manner, and this sensation of total freedom attracted me so powerfully that I painted some monochrome surfaces just to 'see,' to 'see' with my own eyes what existential sensibility granted me: absolute freedom!”

Eye My Own Space Pure Absolutes Surface Granted Sensations Existential Sensibility Impressive Absolute Freedom Winking Monochrome

Author:Yves Klein

“With monochrome painting... the idiosyncrasy of the work, its difference, its expression, lies in shape.”

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Author:Guido Molinari

“I've changed the way I look a bit but not intentionally. I've cut my hair. I've got a bit of pink in it and lately I've become a bit monochrome, wearing a lot of black and white.”

Way Looks Bits Black White Cutting Changed Hair Black And White I've Changed Monochrome

Author:Ellie Goulding

“One of the many problems with the American left has been its image as something rather too solemn, mirthless, herbivorous, dull, monochrome, righteous, and boring.”

Has Beens Problem Left Boring Dull Righteous Solemn Monochrome

Author:Christopher Hitchens

“Let's assume that all the cassettes of monochrome film Cartier-Bresson ever exposed had somehow been surreptitiously loaded with colour film. I'd venture to say that about two thirds of his pictures would be ruined and the remainder unaffected, neither spoiled nor improved. And perhaps one in a thousand enhanced.”

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Author:Philip Jones Griffiths

“Full-color images lack the poignancy of monochrome... Black-and-white film inherently peels off interesting images from the world; it sees things we do not see, and thus insists on the existence of a phantom presence within reality, a world we cannot perceive.”

World Reality Film Black White Interesting Existence Color Perceive Black And White Phantoms Poignancy Monochrome

Book:Inside the Photograph: Writings on Twentieth-century Photography

Source: Inside the Photograph: Writings on Twentieth-century Photography

“People keep asking me if recently performing the Betty album will influence the song-writing and I think it might. There's songs on that record that I forgot about and it's really nice to have that variety in the set along with tracks from Strap It On, Meantime, Aftertaste, Size Matters, Monochrome, and Seeing Eye Dog.”

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Author:Page Hamilton

“Even for the people who are color-blind to any degree, I believe their experience would also be affected [ in Lords of Rainbow ] if everyone else too only perceived the world in colorless monochrome.”

People Ifs World Believe I Believe Lord Color Degrees Blind Affected Rainbow Colorless Monochrome

Author:Vera Nazarian

“That tendency of social thought to generalize, to describe a leading tendency in a society in such a way that it seems that everything falls within its iron laws, is very common. Of course our own experience tells us that life is not as monochrome as these thinkers depict it. On the other hand they are very valuable because they alert us to transformations we are likely to take for granted.”

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Author:Susan Sontag

“Winter came and the city [Chicago] turned monochrome -- black trees against gray sky above white earth. Night now fell in midafternoon, especially when the snowstorms rolled in, boundless prairie storms that set the sky close to the ground, the city lights reflected against the clouds”

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Author:Barack Obama

“And again there are no words. Words exist that can, used by a poet, achieve a dim monochrome of the body's love, but beyond that they fail clumsily. My love flowed out to her, hers back to me. Mine stroked and soothed. Hers caressed. The distance - and the difference - between us dwindled and vanished. We could meet, mingle, and blend. Neither one of us existed any more; for a time there was a single being that was both. There was escape from the solitary cell; a brief symbiosis, sharing all the word.”

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Author:John Wyndham

“You never forget about things you've done that you know you shouldn't have done. They hang around your mind, linger like a thief casing a joint for a future job. You see them there, dramatically lurking nearby in striped monochrome, leaping behind postboxes as soon as your head whips around to confront them. Or it's a familiar face in a crowd that you glimpse but then lose sight of. An annoying Where's Wally? forever locked away and hidden in every thought in your conscience. The bad thing that you did, always there to let you know.”

Source: The Time of My Life

“My monochrome pictures are not my definite works, but the preparation for my works. They are the leftovers from the creative processes, the ashes. My pictures, after all, are only the title-deeds to my property which I have to produce when I am asked to prove that I am a proprietor.”

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Author:Yves Klein

“Nostalgia, the vice of the aged. We watch so many old movies our memories come in monochrome.”

Memories Watches Vices Nostalgia Our Memories Old Movie Monochrome

Book:Wise Children

Source: Wise Children

“The key to success is to find a way to stand out--to be the purple cow in a field of monochrome Holsteins.”

Way Fields Keys Cows Standing Out Key To Success Purple Monochrome

Author:Seth Godin