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Quotes About Monochrome

Don't wait up for me tonight, for the night will be black and white.
~ Gerard de Nerval
He looked like a charcoal drawing of a man. In death, he was blacks and whites.
~ Gabrielle Zevin
I tend to wear monochromatic outfits - all one colour from head to toe. I did that when I was younger and still do that to this day.
~ Suzy Amis
I like to wear a lot of one-tone color outfits - same color trousers, same color shirt.
~ Theophilus London
My favourite colour is red, but I also like jewel tones and monochrome, while my preferred shapes include A-line skirts and skinny trousers.
~ Tamzin Merchant
I make black and white prints because I want to go back to the beginning.
~ Shiko Munakata
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.
~ Christopher Hitchens
A profile was visible against the dull monochrome of cloud around her; and it was as though side shadows from the features of Sappho and Mrs. Siddons had converged upwards from the tomb to form an image like neither but suggesting both.
~ Thomas Hardy
The world should have been in Technicolour, but seemed more like black and white.
~ Kenneth Oppel
La memoria imprime en blanco y negro, los grises se pierden por el camino.
~ Isabel Allende
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
I work in colour sometimes, but I guess the images I most connect to, historically speaking, are in black and white. I see more in black and white - I like the abstraction of it.
~ Mary Ellen Mark
My computer background is a black and white picture I took of the Niteroi Contemporary Art Museum in Brazil.
~ Emma Ishta
Their tumultuous love story was adapted into the 1974 Broadway musical Mack & Mabel. * Peeping Pete was released on June 23, 1913, with A Bandit; they are the oldest surviving Arbuckle movies. * Custard tended to break up in flight, and it faded into the background when shot in monochrome, so later pies consisted of blackberries and whipped cream—a concoction local bakeries readily learned to devise.
~ Greg Merritt
Noir' has been talked about a great deal in the discussion of 'The Black Dahlia,' but De Palma's palllete couldn't be less monochrome; it's the very definition of garish.
~ Mark Fisher
I never use colors. Black and white are all I need. Most of my clothes are black and white, too. I suppose the most flamboyant color in my wardrobe is dark brown.
~ Leonard Baskin, 1964
I work in three shades of black.
~ Rei Kawakubo
With monochrome painting... the idiosyncrasy of the work, its difference, its expression, lies in shape.
~ Guido Molinari
Which is probably the reason why I work exclusively in black and white... to highlight that contrast.
~ Leonard Nimoy
The portraits were monochrome photographs of men in dark suits and ties, four very sober gentlemen whose lapels were decorated with small metal emblems of the kind her father sometimes wore. Though her mother had told her that the cubes contained ghosts, the ghosts of her father's evil ancestors, Kumiko found them more fascinating than frightening.
~ William Gibson
I love a gray-on-gray outfit.
~ Loren Gray
Monotony One monotonous day follows another monotonous day, without change. The same things happen, then happen again. The same moments approach, then grow distant. A month passes and brings another month. Anyone can guess what's coming after: all the tedious events from the day before, until tomorrow looks nothing like tomorrow.
~ Constantinos P. Cavafis
The secret of being boring is to say everything.
~ Voltaire
How come everything in here looks black and white?" "Forgot to pay the color bill," I said. Actually,
~ Unknown