Colour films seemed more realistic at their dawn but now they are in a blind alley. Colour cinema is a great mistake. All forms of art aim at truth and then seek a generalization, a model idea. But truth in life does not correspond to truth in art. Colour is part of our physiological and psychological perception of the external world. We live in a coloured world, but don't realize that unless something makes us aware of it. We don't think of colour while looking at this coloured world. But when shooting a colour scene we organize it and close it up in a frame that we force upon the audience and we give them thousands of such colour postcards. To me, black and white is more expressive and realistic because it does not distract the spectator but but enables him to concentrate on the essence of the film. I think colour made the cinematographic art more false, and less true.

~ Andrei Tarkovsky

A photographer went to a socialite party in New York. As he entered the front door, the host said ‘I love your pictures – they’re wonderful; you must have a fantastic camera.’ He said nothing until dinner was finished, then: ‘That was a wonderful dinner; you must have a terrific stove.’

~ Sam Haskins

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