The lack of hard edges and the entire absence of that biting hardness of definition that is unavoidable with some lenses is just what the picture mak… - Arthur Hammond

Platinum is undoubtedly the process for the pictorialist, for it will reproduce gradations and halftones more delicately and with a longer range than any other similar printing process, but it demands a good negative to do it justice.

...it is essential to have only one principal object of interest in a picture. Without it the picture is not completely satisfying, for the eye is apt to wander over the surface of the picture, seeking rest and finding none.

Just because a picture is unusually low in tone, it is not necessarily pictorial.