The sky is as much an essential part of the picture as any other part of it, and indeed, in very many instances, constitutes the key-note and importa… - Alfred Horsley Hinton

… to put it into slightly different form, it is not the facts in nature that the good picture aims at portraying, but the effects of light and shade accompanied by a pleasing arrangement.

The desire to see for the sake of seeing is with most people the only desire to be gratified; hence the delight in detail.

The objection to the shiny, highly polished surface of albumen and gelatine papers is that, besides the fact that the surface reflects false and disturbing lights, the very polish and gloss has an artificial appearance which, from its very superfine character, irresistibly reminds us of its origin and nature.