Black and white can show how something is. Color adds how it is, imbued with temperatures and humidities of experience.
Interpretation
The quote emphasizes the difference between the stark reality of black and white versus the nuanced emotions conveyed through color.
Peter Schjeldahl's quote reflects on the transformative power of color in art and life. While black and white represent the objective and tangible aspects of existence, color introduces a deeper layer of subjective experience, enriching our understanding of reality through the emotions and sensations associated with hues and shades.
In practice
This quote can be used in a discussion about the impact of colors in painting and visual arts.
The artist is a strange being. I think it's safe to say that a real artist is conscious of having a personal singularity that is partly a blessing and partly a curse. An artist enjoys and suffers from isolation. As solitude, isolation can nurture. It can also destroy.
Colour is the touch of the eye, Music to the deaf, A word out of darkness.
We live in an age of music for people who don't like music. The record industry discovered some time ago that there aren't that many people who actually like music. For a lot of people, music's annoying, or at the very least they don't need it. They discovered if they could sell music to a lot of those people, they could sell a lot more records.
Movies, they take years of my life, so I'm fortunate that I get to work in a lot of different mediums.
I am the luckiest old broad on two feet if the truth were known. It's - but it all goes back to 'Mary Tyler Moore,' 'Golden Girls,' all those - actors love to take the credit. We couldn't do it without the writers.
Very often people looking at my pictures say, 'You must have had to wait a long time to get that cloud just right (or that shadow, or the light).' As a matter of fact, I almost never wait, that is, unless I can see that the thing will be right in a few minutes. But if I must wait an hour for the shadow to move, or the light to change, or the cow to graze in the other direction, then I put up my camera and go on, knowing that I am likely to find three subjects just as good in the same hour.
One thing I did pick up from Cannonball Run was the use of bloopers and outtakes under the final credits, which I've done in all my movies since.
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