Color Photography Quotes:

One very important difference between color and monochromatic photography is this: in black and white you suggest; in color you state. Much can be implied by suggestion, but statement demands certainty... absolute certainty.

- Paul Outerbridge

source: Graham Howe, Paul Outerbridge, Jacqueline Markham (1980). “Paul Outerbridge, Jr: photographs”

topic: Photography, Black And White, Color, Monochromatic, Color Photography

To me, photography is an art of observation. It's about finding something interesting in an ordinary place... I've found it has little to do with the things you see and everything to do with the way you see them.

- Elliott Erwitt

source: "You Might Be a Cowgirl If . . .: A Guide to Life on the Range" by Jill Charlotte Stanford, Robin L. Corey, Globe Pequot, (p. 111), September 4, 2012.

topic: Inspirational, Inspiring, Photography, Great Photography, Inspiring Photography

Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still.

- Dorothea Lange

topic: Inspirational, Photography, Black And White, Street Photography, Best Art

In my photography, color and composition are inseparable. I see in color.

- William Albert Allard

topic: Photography, Color, Inseparable, Color Photography

Photography is a way of feeling, of touching, of loving. What you have caught on film is captured forever... it remembers little things, long after you have forgotten everything.

- Aaron Siskind

topic: Inspirational, Inspiring, Photography, Great Photography, Inspiring Photography

When you photograph people in color you photograph their clothes. When you photograph people in black and white, you photograph their soul!

- Ted Grant

topic: Photography, Black And White, Color, Great Photography, Street Photography

There is only you and your camera. The limitations in your photography are in yourself, for what we see is what we are.

- Ernst Haas

topic: Photography, Creativity, Cameras, Inspirational Photography, Street Photography

A photograph is a secret about a secret. The more it tells you the less you know.

- Diane Arbus

topic: Inspirational, Photography, Philosophical, Great Photography, Inspiring Photography

Photography, as we all know, is not real at all. It is an illusion of reality with which we create our own private world.

- Arnold Newman

source: Arnold Newman, Bruce Weber (1988). “Arnold Newman in Florida”, David R Godine Pub

topic: Photography, Real, World, Landscape Photography, Color Photography

Photography is a small voice, at best, but sometimes one photograph, or a group of them, can lure our sense of awareness.

- W. Eugene Smith

source: W. Eugene Smith (1981). “W. Eugene Smith, master of the photographic essay”

topic: Photography, Voice, Groups, Lure, Color Photography

Black and white are the colors of photography. To me they symbolize the alternatives of hope and despair to which mankind is forever subjected.

- Robert Frank

source: Sarah Greenough, Robert Frank, Philip Brookman, National Gallery of Art (U.S.) (1994). “Robert Frank”, Natl Gallery of Art

topic: Photography, Black And White, Color, Color Photography, Art Photography

Photography is a major force in explaining man to man.

- Edward Steichen

topic: Photography, Men, Explaining, Inherited Wealth, Color Photography

Photography records the gamut of feelings written on the human face, the beauty of the earth and skies that man has inherited, and the wealth and confusion man has created. It is a major force in explaining man to man.

- Edward Steichen

source: "To Catch the Instant", Time Magazine, April 7, 1961.

topic: Photography, Men, Sky, Great Photography, Inherited Wealth

Beware of color theories. Theories in color photography are dangerous. The plain fact that there are so many of them proves my point.

- Ernst Haas

topic: Photography, Color, Facts, Color Photography

Color tends to corrupt photography and absolute color corrupts it absolutely. Consider the way color film usually renders blue sky, green foliage, lipstick red, and the kiddies' playsuit. These are four simple words which must be whispered: color photography is vulgar.

- Walker Evans

topic: Photography, Simple, Blue, Color Photography, Simple Words

...one sees differently with color photography than black-and-white... in short, visualization must be modified by the specific nature of the equipment and materials being used.

- Ansel Adams

topic: Photography, Black And White, Color, Color Photography, Black And White Photography

Only in black and white can I see the design and textures. I don't consider color photography art. Black and white is an interpretation. Color is a duplication.

- Clyde Butcher

topic: Photography, Art, Black And White, Duplication, Color Photography

In black and white there are more colors than color photography, because you are not blocked by any colors so you can use your experiences, your knowledge, and your fantasy, to put colors into black and white.

- Anders Petersen

topic: Photography, Black And White, Color, Blocked, Color Photography

3D is very exciting. I love it. I'm a complete convert. Everything for me, from now on, is 3D. I'm completely convinced it's the future of home entertainment, as well as cinema entertainment. I think it's a paradigm shift, in terms of cinema, and those things don't happen very often. The introduction of sound, the introduction of color photography and now 3D have been the big shifts. They happen once every 40 or 50 years, so it's very exciting to be a filmmaker, working while one of them is happening.

- Paul W. S. Anderson

source: Source: collider.com

topic: Photography, Home, Thinking, Paradigm Shift, Color Photography

The majority of America's colossal fortunes have been made by entering industries in their early stages and developing leadership in them.... Think of what opportunities the present and the future contain in such fields as ship-building and ship-owning, aircraft, electrical development, the oil industry, different branches of the automotive industry, foreign trade, international banking, invention, the chemical industry, moving pictures, color photography, and, one night add, labor leadership.

- B. C. Forbes

topic: Photography, Moving, Thinking, Oil Industry, Color Photography