The treatment of the subject is considered to be more important than the subject itself. - Arthur Hammond

...the accuracy of the lens is often regarded as infallible, whereas, from the artistic standpoint, a lens is less accurate than the trained eye.

Practically speaking, the securing of true tones in a photograph depends entirely upon the exposure.

The emotions suggested by facts, not the facts themselves, are what concern the picture maker. This is where he is differentiated from those who seek to make only records and who are concerned only with facts.