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Quotes About Monochrome

I'm normally late, so I just kind of throw on the sort of thing that's at hand. And then I'll go through phases of wearing the same thing again and again and again - and my wardrobe is mainly about black and white, so it goes together. I'll play with certain elements, but I don't really think about it too much.
~ Daphne Guinness
He hated to think of his own life stretching ahead of him that way, a long succession of days and nights that were fine - not good, not bad, not great, not lousy, not exciting, not anything.
~ Robert Cormier
I gently moved her hand away. "This is an ink painting. It only uses black ink.
~ Ji-li Jiang
It's really a drag to do the same project over and over again.
~ David Johansen
When I first saw her, she stood out in vivid, living color while the world around her turned to grayscale.
~ Lori Perkins
Neela had dressed for beauty, not for warmth, and the afternoon had lost its glow. Solanka took off his coat and put it over her trembling shoulders. All around them in the park the colours were fading. The world became a place of blacks and greys. Women's clothes – unusually for New York, it had been a season of bright colours – faded to monochrome. Under a gunmetal sky, the green leached out of the spreading trees.
~ Salman Rushdie
I like black and white films. I don't exactly know why - probably because there is a stylization which is removed from actual life, unlike a color film.
~ Norman McLaren
Snowy, milky, chalky. A color that is the absence of color. Every morning he ties his shoes, packs newspaper inside his coat as insulation against the cold, and begins interrogating the world.
~ Anthony Doerr
Everybody knows I wear a lot of black. When I pack, my whole bag is nothing but black, but sometimes, I have, like, a few pieces that are white, but it's rare.
~ Mariacarla Boscono
The perceived wisdom is that people do not go in large numbers to black-and-white movies anymore - which is a great shame, but I'd love to make a black-and-white movie one day.
~ Sam Mendes
When you look at Darling and the Oscars, it has to be luck. It was a black and white film and it was the last time that there was a black and white Oscar.
~ Julie Harris
I always wear 'Hannah Marshall', all black.
~ Romy Madley Croft
I tend to wear monochromatic outfits - all one colour from head to toe.
~ Suzy Amis
I love white T-shirts as much as I love black. I often wear total black. It's my favourite.
~ Chiara Ferragni
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
~ Barack Obama
I'm a real believer in dressing tone-on-tone. I'm not saying you need to dress black. Dress just one color so the colors are not breaking your silhouette.
~ Nina Garcia
My favorite colors are black, white and silver.
~ Christina Anstead
I love monochrome looks and I think an entire skin color one really brings out one's features and is immensely sexy.
~ Nandita Mahtani
My essentials are skinny jeans, loose-fitting tees, big jumpers, and the leather jacket. Everything is black or blue - I don't own anything colorful.
~ Jamie Campbell Bower
I love black-and-white movies that are about contemporary subjects.
~ Noah Baumbach
I love... anything in black and white. Just put it on the TV, I'll watch.
~ Anna Chlumsky
She was an exotic flower amongst the snowdrifts, out of place, a Technicolor misfit in a monochrome Christmas movie.
~ Thomm Quackenbush, We Shadows
It had been raining for hours, one of those endless fall rains that sucked all the color out of the world and turned your life into a black-and-white movie.
~ Brian Freeman
Glasgow - don't get me wrong, I love Glasgow, but in the '60s and '70s the city was on its knees. It was kind of bankrupt. It was pretty monochrome.
~ Jim Kerr