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The moment the eye perceives that the picture is produced by other than the professed means, the effect, the appeal to the imagination, is disturbed.

— 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.

Justification must be sought in the fact that "no very great incongruity is observable."

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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