Quotes that I found very amusing and very on target.

'To the complaint, 'There are no people in these photographs,' I respond, 'There are always two people: the photographer and the viewer.'

Ansel Adams (1902 - 1984)

I have often thought that if photography were difficult in the true sense of the term -- meaning that the creation of a simple photograph would entail as much time and effort as the production of a good watercolor or etching -- there would be a vast improvement in total output. The sheer ease with which we can produce a superficial image often leads to creative disaster.

Ansel Adams (1902 - 1984)

No matter how slow the film, Spirit always stands still long enough for the photographer It has chosen.

Minor White

They used to photograph Shirley Temple through gauze. They should photograph me through linoleum.

Tallulah Bankhead (1903 - 1968)

FASHION

Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.

Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900) (1854 - 1900)

Fashion is something that goes in one year and out the other.

Unknown

I base my fashion taste on what doesn't itch.

Gilda Radner (1946 - 1989)

Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new.

Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862), "Walden", 1854

A fashion is nothing but an induced epidemic.

George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)

Fallacies do not cease to be fallacies because they become fashions.

G. K. Chesterton (1874 - 1936)

Results from Laura Moncur's Motivational Quotations:

I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions.

Lillian Hellman (1905 - 1984), letter to Committee on Un-American Activities of the House of Representatives, May 19, 1952