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The composition may be ever so carefully worked out, but it must appear unconsciously done. And so it will be best in most cases to depart slightly from precise and symmetrical arrangement, as though unintentionally, lest the endeavor to obey artificial rules betrays itself.

— Alfred Horsley Hinton

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A good negative is one thing, but a negative that will enable us to get a good picture is another.

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

As a rule, in pictorial photography a long-focus lens will on the whole be most satisfactory.

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Art seeks ever to conceal the means by which its effects are produced and the method in which the work is wrought.

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