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Jonathan Anderson

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The eye should learn to listen before it looks.
ROBERT FRANK When you photograph people in color, you photograph their clothes. But when you photograph people in...
TED GRANT Life is not black and white; there is some gray nuance to it.
PILOU ASBAEK My computer background is a black and white picture I took of the Niteroi Contemporary Art Museum in...
EMMA ISHTA Media today is even more black and white, then early photography ever was
LOESJE Some white people hate black people, and some white people love black people, some black people hate...
EDEN AHBEZ I gravitate toward contemporary art. I love great paintings, sculpture, photography, some video art.
DAVID FURNISH In the '70s, in Britain, if you were going to do serious photography, you were obliged to work i...
MARTIN PARR Some white people hate black people, and some white people love black people, some black people hate...
EDEN AHBEZ Mortals. Everything is so black and white to you.
KAMI GARCIA I never realised before how much of a jurist I am. I try to bring everything back to the basics, to ...
DANNY MEKIć Black-and-white photography, which I was doing in the very early days, was essentially called art ph...
WILLIAM EGGLESTON It's black and color, but blue and white I'm having also, but I have also brocade, like Chinese broc...
WOLFGANG JOOP Diversity doesn't mean black and white only.
HENRY LOUIS GATES Most makeup campaigns are not in black and white.
CARINE ROITFELD I don't see the world completely in black and white. Sometimes I do.
BENICIO DEL TORO I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES I am very cautious of people who are absolutely right, especially when they are vehemently so.
MICHAEL PALIN Black and white are the colors of photography. To me they symbolize the alternatives of hope and des...
ROBERT FRANK Color can do anything that black-and-white can.
VINCENTE MINNELLI If everything isn't black and white, I say, 'Why the hell not?'
JOHN WAYNE In the beginning it was all black and white.
MAUREEN O'HARA Things are not quite so simple always as black and white.
DORIS LESSING Black and white creates a strange dreamscape that color never can.
JACK ANTONOFF Celluloid will be the next decade's black and white.
DANNY BOYLE Law in Ukraine is not black and white; it is shades of gray.
BRANDON WEBB If you look beyond the lies, then you will see the truth.
Remember: Just because it's black and...
ANTHONY T. HINCKS Color television! Bah, I won't believe it until I see it in black and white.
SAMUEL GOLDWYN And I also figured out that way I can do a film in black and white because I've never been able to d...
ALEX COX I know the difference between right and wrong. I understand the rules. But today I feel that the rul...
CECELIA AHERN Some stories aren’t black and white…
C.J. ROBERTS No matter how the future fasts forward, there is always something to look back and re-appreciate thi...
LEAH DANCEL Personally, I'd never seen a graphic novel. I knew they existed because friends of mine like Jon...
STEPHEN FRY Life isn't always black and white. You're not always sure you're right. At least I'm...
BRAD PAISLEY Dallas was a Black and White society at that time; it didn't have the diversity it has now.
EDDIE BERNICE JOHNSON Maybe black and white is the best medium for landscapes, I don't know.
FAY GODWIN Human nature is not black and white but black and grey.
GRAHAM GREENE There's so much grey to every story - nothing is so black and white.
LISA LING Everything's not black and white. We choose to make bad decisions or not.
WILL ARNETT I like boring black and white films with subtitles. I'm basically a drip.
HENRY ROLLINS It's unfortunate that in an interview sometimes things can seem so black and white.
GISELE BUNDCHEN There are very few really stark black and white stories.
JIM LEHRER I don't photograph in color, I don't photograph in black and white, I photograph in truth.
RODEL NATIVIDAD CASIO No person is completely wicked, just as no person is perfect. We are all grey
SHINDE SWEETY At first, all is black and white.
Black on white.
That's where I'm walking, through pages....
MARKUS ZUSAK WHETHER IT'S A CHILD'S TOY OR A NATION'S OIL, IT'S ALL THE SAME, the Red Rider said. YOU FIGHT FO...
JACKIE KESSLER I don't believe there's two sides to every story. It's black and white. There's righ...
JOE WURZELBACHER I always thought white people.were white because they stood in the cold to long, and froze. And blac...
SONYA.E.WILLIAMS I think the truth is black-and-white.
NANCY GRACE I love contemporary North American fiction and short fiction. My favorite writer is Jonathan Franzen...
EMILY PERKINS I started as a black and white photographer, but the colors I was seeing were just so lurid and comp...
DAVID MAISEL It's never black and white on 'Game of Thrones.' If you think it's black and white, ...
MAISIE WILLIAMS This nation is being divided into black and white, and the present system encourages this.
PAULINE HANSON When you're the victim of the behavior, it's black and white; when you're the perpetrato...
LAURA SCHLESSINGER We are all somewhere or the other a little grey, not black and white. We have our imperfections.
KRITI SANON It's about you. If you win, it's you; if you lose, it's you. Black and white. Nowhere to...
GREG RUSEDSKI I don't know why we work, my husband and I. We just do. We are black and white - yin and yang.
HEIDI KLUM Life isn't black and white. It's a million gray areas, don't you find?
RIDLEY SCOTT There are infinite shades of grey. Writing often appears so black and white.
REBECCA SOLNIT Americans are inclined to see the world and foreign affairs in black and white.
RICHARD KERRY Which is probably the reason why I work exclusively in black and white... to highlight that contrast...
LEONARD NIMOY I prefer to work with grey characters rather than black and white.
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN Freedom would be not to choose between black and white but to abjure such prescribed choices.
THEODOR ADORNO In movies we tend make things black and white: you're either this, or you're that.
BILL SKARSGARD The Sophisticate: “The world isn’t black and white. No one does pure good or pure bad. It’s al...
MARC STIEGLER Ought one to surrender to authority even if one believed that that authority was wrong? If the answe...
RICHARD WRIGHT When I'm around black or white people, I'm always in the middle. Especially when I am around...
KARYN PARSONS I work in colour sometimes, but I guess the images I most connect to, historically speaking, are in ...
MARY ELLEN MARK This world that we live in would be perfect if there were less prejudice and people who think they a...
WERLEY NORTREUS My mom loved the old black-and-white films.
CARY FUKUNAGA There are lots of black-and-white cats. I wasn't about to start crying over some strange cat.
JAMIE PORTER I do remember doing shows strictly in black and white, too, so you're right.
JIM HENSON When in life do you get a black and white printout that says this is what you should do? It just doe...
WARREN LITTLEFIELD College was where I got to actually experience the difference between black and white.
ILYASAH SHABAZZ South Africa belongs to all who live in it, black and white.
THABO MBEKI You can't go wrong mixing classic graphics in black and white. It's very Parisienne.
BRAD GORESKI Black and white thinking forces a choice between pretending we know everything and believing we know...
TERENCE T. GORSKI Our personal past is only available to us now through black-and-white film, it's a medium for commun...
FRANK LENTRICCHIA A rock is harder than a feather, you can talk and jabber and make exceptions, but in the end, if you...
ANDREW KLAVAN I think that many black people thought this would be a wonderful and extraordinary thing, for a blac...
RANDALL KENNEDY When I was a little girl, everything in the world fell into either of these two categories: wrong or...
C. JOYBELL C. Bits and pieces flung into the universe, sticking in the sky like cotton balls on a jet black velcro...
BRADLEY CHICHO I read that prior to the advent of color TV, most people dreamed in black and white.
DAMIAN LOEB In tragedy, it's hard to find a good resolution; it's not black and white: it's a big fo...
PAUL DANO Everything is very black and white for me. I don't really like playing mind games.
ZAYN MALIK I'm seeing the world partially through the eyes of a kid. Not all the time. There's no black...
STEVEN WRIGHT Just telling a story. That's cinema. It's not silent, black and white. It's a simple sto...
JEAN DUJARDIN Even when your life is full of color, you still need to be reminded that things come in black and wh...
ANTHONY T. HINCKS I've always been a tomboy. I've always liked to wear red, black, and white, and mostly pants...
JANET JACKSON Apart from photography and music videos, I also do graphic design.
ANTON CORBIJN The United States is not a nation of black and white people. Any fool can see that white people are ...
ALBERT MURRAY Look at any black-and-white movie; everybody is smoking.
LONI ANDERSON There is no black-and-white situation. It's all part of life. Highs, lows, middles.
VAN MORRISON When I was younger, I used to watch all the black-and-white 'Dracula's and 'Frankenstein...
SEAN BEAN Not at all," persisted Chalmers, unaware that Shea was trying to shush him. "The people of the count...
L. SPRAGUE DE CAMP I slightly lost my enthusiasm for most acting, but I've done some little bits and pieces - curio...
HUGH GRANT People who haven't seen ceramics ... will be impressed with the size of some of the pieces. Some are...
HEATHER DAVIS We were in the heart of the ghetto in Chicago during the Depression, and every block - it was probab...
QUINCY JONES My life is black and white and mixed. My mother's a Rastafarian, my dad was a short white guy - ...
ZADIE SMITH I believe very strongly that when it comes to desire, when it comes to attraction, that things are n...
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Which ever side you think i...
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JONATHAN SWIFT 'Tis an old maxim in the schools,
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Yet now and then your men...
JONATHAN SWIFT She wears her clothes as if they were thrown on with a pitch folk.
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JONATHAN SWIFT Brutes find out where their talents lie;
A bear will not attempt to fly,
A foundered horse w...
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JONATHAN RABAN But when a Man
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JONATHAN SWIFT And he gave it for his opinion, "that whoever could make two ears of corn, or two blades of grass, ...
JONATHAN SWIFT I warrant you lay abed till the cows came home.
JONATHAN SWIFT Faith, that's as well said as if I had said it myself.
JONATHAN SWIFT Forget regret, or life is yours to miss.
JONATHAN LARSON Reason is a very light rider, and easily shook off.
JONATHAN SWIFT There's an enduring American compulsion to be on the side of the angels. Expediency alone has never ...
JONATHAN RABAN What she doesn't say is just as important as what she does say -- but there's so much more of it. I ...
JONATHAN KATZ Nor do they trust their tongue alone, but speak a language of their own; can read a nod, a shrug, a ...
JONATHAN SWIFT I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed.
JONATHAN SWIFT As blushing will sometimes make a whore pass for a virtuous woman, so modesty may make a fool seem a...
JONATHAN SWIFT How we apples swim.
JONATHAN SWIFT Instead of dirt and poison, we have rather chosen to fill our hives with honey and wax, thus furnis...
JONATHAN SWIFT Convey a libel in a frown. And wink a reputation down!
JONATHAN SWIFT For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery.
JONATHAN SWIFT