black

newspaper

reading

white

dad joke

racism

Santa Claus

chimney

zebra

binomial

background

tongue twister

phobia

color

yellow

trivia

impact

clothing

is a broken vessel which is deprived of the capacity to contain anything.

Black is like a broken vessel, which is deprived of the capacity to contain anything. (Leonardo da Vinci)

is, along with white, absolute. The two express the most delicate vibration, the most profound tranquility, and unlimited profundity.

Black and white are absolute. . . expressing the most delicate vibration, the most profound tranquility, and unlimited profundity. (Shiko Munakata)

is interesting not as a color but as a non-color and as the absence of color.

As an artist I would like to eliminate the symbolic pretty much, for black is interesting not as a color but as a non-color and as the absence of color. (Ad Reinhardt)

is not a negation of color. It contains all colors. It is the most aristocratic color of all. You can be quiet, and it contains the whole thing.

I fell in love with black... it contained all color. It wasn't a negation of color. . . Black is the most aristocratic color of all. . . You can be quiet, and it contains the whole thing. (Louise Nevelson)

has an undeniable virtue... allowing the brain to be mesmerized and pulling the pupils deep into that unfound but sensed abyss.

There is an undeniable virtue to a true black... allowing the brain to be mesmerized and pulling the pupils deep into that unfound but sensed abyss. (Jamie Lavin)

is a color, and so too is white, for their simultaneous contrast is as striking as that of green and red.

Suffice it to say that black and white are also colors... for their simultaneous contrast is as striking as that of green and red, for instance.

is like the silence of the body after death, the close of life.

Black is like the silence of the body after death, the close of life.

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

black, n.All

black