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

...picture-making is almost entirely a matter of good taste, and that is largely instinctive when the taste has been trained and cultivated.

To learn to see pictorially is the first essential duty of the would-be picture-maker.

The picture-space should be filled, but need not be crowded, and it must be remembered that in judging balance, not only the masses of the subject, but also the shapes of the area remaining after being cut into by the outlines of these masses, have a bearing on the general design of the picture.