“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.” WayIdeasNamesBlackWhiteTalkingSupportColorPaintingPerspectiveProportionBlack And WhiteWorth ItChiaroscuro Author:Eugene Delacroix
“I would have artists be convinced that the supreme skill and art in painting consists in knowing how to use black and white... because it is light and shade that make objects appear in relief.” ArtUseLightArtistBlackWhiteKnowingObjectsPaintingSkillsConvincedSupremeReliefShadeBlack And White Author:Leon Battista Alberti
“I try to do much of the necessary alteration on the black and white [cartoons] rather than leave it to be done on the paintings.” TryingDoneBlackWhitePaintingPreparationBlack And WhiteCartoonAlterations Author:E. J. Hughes
“If you have used colour throughout most of your artistic life, try just black and white... it will take your painting to another dimension where tone and form in all its permutations reign supreme.” IfsTryingFormUsedBlackWhitePaintingSupremeArtisticToneColourDimensionsBlack And WhiteReignArtistic Life Author:David Luiz
“One of the interesting things I discovered is that in the late 19th century, painters actually had black-and-white copies made of their own paintings. They chose it even over photographs because they knew the photographic medium would distort their work.” MadeBlackWhiteInterestingCenturyPaintingLatePhotographMediumsPainterCopiesBlack And WhiteInteresting Things19th Century Author:Robert Longo
“One teacher told me that my work belonged in the trash. That day I ran out of the classroom and ended up in the library, where there happened to be a black and white photography exhibition of Robert Rauschenberg's photographs of the streets of New York. The subject of his photos were exactly what I was painting about.” BlackWhiteTeacherHappenedStreetsSubjectsNew YorkPaintingPhotographyLibraryPhotographRanClassroomBlack And WhiteTrashExhibitionsBlack And White Photography Author:Jose Parla