A good negative is one thing, but a negative that will enable us to get a good picture is another. - Alfred Horsley Hinton

…--- a view may include any number of interesting facts, may constitute a whole catalog of important and pretty items, and so be valuable as a view or as a record; but it would utterly fails as a pictorial composition.

...to be able to say of a representation that it is "exactly like Nature " is by no means equivalent to saying that it is a fine picture.

…the strongest part of a picture is the sensation and the feeling which it creates, this being done through the agency of certain familiar objects more or less accurately depicted and represented with more or less completeness.
The MOTIVE, then, in all pictorial work is to convey some thought or idea or sensation by means of a chosen subject.