Monochrome Quotes:

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

- Angela Carter

source: Angela Carter (2012). “Wise Children”, p.10, Random House

topic: Memories, Vices, Watches, Monochrome

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

- Shing02

topic: Dream, Black And White, Tone, Monochrome

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

- Guido Molinari

topic: Lying, Expression, Differences, Monochrome

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

topic: Monochrome

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.

- Peter C Bunnell

topic: Black And White, Reality, Color, Monochrome, Poignancy

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.

- Yves Klein

topic: Creative, Preparation, Ashes, Leftovers, Monochrome

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

- Seth Godin

topic: Keys, Purple, Cows, Monochrome

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.

- Vera Nazarian

source: Source: fantasyworlds.wordpress.com

topic: Believe, Color, People, Monochrome, Colorless

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!

- Yves Klein

source: "Yves Klein, 1928 - 1962, Selected Writings". Book by Yves Klein, ed. J & J. p.15, 1974.

topic: Eye, Space, Existential, Monochrome, Absolute Freedom

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 ...

- John Wyndham

topic: Distance, Differences, Cells, Monochrome, Symbiosis

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.

- Philip Jones Griffiths

topic: Two, Would Be, Venture, Cartier, Monochrome

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.

- Ellie Goulding

source: "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Cutting, Black And White, Hair, Monochrome

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.

- Cecelia Ahern

source: Cecelia Ahern (2011). “The Time of My Life”, p.2, HarperCollins UK

topic: Jobs, Sight, Forever, Monochrome, Familiar Faces

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.

- Susan Sontag

source: Source: ctheory.net

topic: Fall, Hands, Law, Monochrome

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.

- Page Hamilton

topic: Dog, Song, Nice, Monochrome

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

topic: Winter, Night, Clouds, Monochrome, City Lights