Black and white are the colors of photography. To me, they symbolize the alternatives of hope and despair to which mankind is forever subjected.
Color is descriptive. Black and white is interpretive.
There's something strange and powerful about black-and-white imagery.
Black and white is mix of toughest simplicity and easiest complexity.
Black and white creates a strange dreamscape that color never can.

When you photograph people in color, you photograph their clothes. But when you photograph people in black and white, you photograph their souls!
Black and white is how it should be; white gets a little too boring, black is a little too bold. The best things happen in shades of gray.
I've been forty years discovering that the queen of all colors is black.
Black and white is salt and pepper of colors, for life tastes bland without them.
The world is in color, you have to work at black and white.
I don't trust any color. I only believe in black and white.
To see in color is a delight for the eye but to see in black and white is a delight for the soul.
Monochrome is a choice that doesn't require much thought.

Black and white are the colors of photography, which sees the world in terms of light and shadow.

Color is everything, black and white is more.
In the black and white world, there is no gray. You are either truthful or you are not.

Sometimes, I like black and white because it leaves more to the imagination.
Black and white is abstract; color is not. Looking at a black and white photograph, you are already looking at a strange world.