
Black, like white, is the best color! —
Karl Lagerfeld

The most beautiful colors laid on at random, give less pleasure than a black-and-white drawing. —
Aristotle.

Black women were created of
brown sugar and warm honey.
the sweetest thing to bless the earth.
be wary of anyone who tells you otherwise. —
Alexandra Elle

Color can do anything that black-and-white can. —
Vincente Minnelli

We Negro writers, just by being black, have been on the blacklist all our lives. Censorship for us begins at the color line. —
Langston Hughes

My favorite color is black. —
Johnny Depp

Black is the Color and none is the number —
Bob Dylan

Color of gold. I have short black hair and green eyes; —
Frances Hodgson Burnett

Pictures ... flashed on her in sudden color, too much color, shocking color, the color that leaps out of black when lightning strikes at night. —
Thomas Harris

Black is the color of celebration, the color of nights that never end... —
Anne Berest

There is absolutely nothing feminine about the colour pink, or, anything bad-luck'ish about the colour black - in itself. —
Mokokoma Mokhonoana

A typical native New Yorker, I'm prone to wearing the city's unofficial sartorial color: black. —
Amanda Hearst

It disturbed me that he saw things in such black-and-white tones. I sure didn't. For me, the world was a confusion of color. —
Dia Reeves

Black is greenest ever. —
Vikrmn

Stories give color to black and white information. —
Todd Stocker

If you don't know what color to take, take black ... —
Pablo Picasso

Coming to Hawai'i is like going from black and white to color. —
John Richard Stephens

Funny is not a color. Being black is only good from the time you get from the curtain to the microphone. —
Flip Wilson

For years I'd thought my color was black: deep, dark, thoughtful, mysterious. Black, you can hide behind. But now I know it is red. —
Jami Attenberg

The world is more than black and white. Seeing everything in color helps me raise my spirit and find my happy. Life is meant to be lived in color! —
Jodi Livon

I like contrasting between black and white and color. —
Robert Barry

When Henry Ford said, "The customer can have a car in any color as long as it's black," he was not joking. —
Peter Drucker

My first boyfriend was black as well, but that doesn't prove I'm color-blind, just that I like big butts. —
David Sedaris

I always loved to paint. As a kid, I liked to dip my paintbrush in black ink. They gave colors to me to use, but I didn't like them very much. —
Pierre Soulages

Black and white creates a strange dreamscape that color never can. —
Jack Antonoff

I used to rely on black-and-white, and while I was working on 'Smile,' I learned to adapt to color on my end. —
Raina Telgemeier

I see love in black and white. Passion in shades of "gris". But when it comes to you and I, color is all I see. —
Lady Gaga

Friendship is like the
color black, it goes wit everything". —
Jeanne Betancourt

Midnight blue is the only color that can ever compete with black. —
Christian Dior

Fade to black. Or whatever color you like. If you can find a way to fade to pink or purple, please do. —
David Levithan

My black-and-white work is more of a celebration, and the color work became more of a critique of society. —
Martin Parr

Black and white are the most ravishing colors of all in film. —
Penelope Gilliatt

Life is too kind to men, whatever their color. —
Maryse Conde

You do not give your precious body to the billy clubs of Birmingham sheriffs, nor to the insidious activity of the streets. —
Ta-Nehisi Coates

Why black and white? Because color can be too demanding. —
Diane Keaton

The world seemed leached of color. The river was the color of steel, the sky gray as a dove, the horizon a thick black painted line in the distance. —
Cassandra Clare

Black is not a color. —
Edouard Manet

Don't you dare come into my world and tell me what color the ocean is! It's black. Black as midnight. Black and awful! —
Nadia Scrieva

Right and wrong
Black and white
And many shades
Of gray
I want color in my life
Color in my dreams. —
Lisa Schroeder

Black absorbs all color, accepts them, takes them into it and let them define it. Gray isn't anything but itself. It absorbs nothing but itself. —
Nicole Williams

Life without music can only be seen in black and white. It takes music to add the color. —
Jessie Haas

Black is the hardest color in the world to get right-except for gray ... —
Diana Vreeland

Roll big blunts, a whole ounce of reefer
Rocked that 'Black and Yellow' before Wiz Khalifa
It's a killer bee color scheme —
Ghostface Killah

There's something about black. You feel hidden away in it. —
Georgia O'Keeffe

Some people live such boring lives,its black and white,so dead! I choose to color my life with Fun, some blue some green,some red.-RVM —
R.v.m.

Life is in color, but black and white is more realistic. —
Samuel Fuller

I'm against solutions that are worse than the problem. Like old women who want their hair dyed the color of shoe polish to hide the gray. —
Neal Shusterman

Design in black and white. Add color for emphasis, when your design is complete. —
Diane Wilson

I love the
color black. I wear a lot of black. —
Behati Prinsloo

My philosophy, like color television, is all there in black and white. —
Graham Chapman

There are only two colors to paint a boat, black or white, and only a fool would paint a boat black. —
Nathanael Greene Herreshoff

Designing bridal is perfect for me, because black is my least favorite color, if you could call it a color. —
Lela Rose

All these many-coloured feelings fell... like light on a black surface, producing no change, meeting no return. —
Catharine Maria Sedgwick

The line isn't so black and white anymore. I'm pretty sure gray just became my new favorite color. —
Colleen Hoover

The locomotives are black. The coal is black. The tracks are black. The night is black. So what am I going to do with color? —
O. Winston Link

In black and white you suggest, in color you state. —
Paul Outerbridge

Love is the color in the black and white photography! —
Mehmet Murat Ildan

I believe that the essence of photography is black and white. Color is but a deviance. —
Sarah Moon

I don't think women need another black bag. Everybody has a black bag already, so I thought this season (needs) color. —
Carolina Herrera

Black and white is abstract; color is not. Looking at a black and white photograph, you are already looking at a strange world. —
Joel Sternfeld

Looking at me from the outside, it is not very obvious, I know half my family is black and I feel close to their culture and their color. —
Ryan Giggs

The first thing I do is take Polaroids of the sitter - 10 or 12 color Polaroids and eight or 10 black-and whites. —
Chuck Close

Black and white might be sufficient. But why deprive yourself of color. —
Christian Dior

Western funerals: black hearses, and black horses, and fast-fading flowers. Why should black be the colour of death? Why not the colours of a sunset? —
Daniele Vare

No color will ever be brighter for me than black and white. —
Alessandro Del Piero

Like the
color black, business mixed with anything turns to business. —
Lynda Obst

I've been forty years discovering that the queen of all colors is black. —
Henri Matisse

Scatman, fat man, black and white and brown man, tell me 'bout the color of your soul. —
Scatman John

One morning, one of us ran out of the black, it was the birth of Impressionism. —
Pierre-Auguste Renoir

The execs don't care what color you are. They care about how much money you make. Hollywood is not really black or white. It's green. —
Will Smith

I feel you see every crack and bruise with black and white [pictiures] and color distracts usually from the honesty. —
Nikki Sixx

They are all black and white and she is color. She is all my colors. —
Lauren Blakely

Any color is more distinctly seen when opposed to its contrary: thus, black on white, blear near yellow, green near red, and so on. —
Leonardo Da Vinci