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

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

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

There is a tendency among "advanced" pictorialists to neglect the choice of an interesting subject and to trust to an effective pattern to make their pictures interesting. Such pictures are often interesting, but they are interesting more as studies in artistic technique than as pictures.