Henry Peach Robinson

“The first thing to be considered in a picture is unity.”

“A great deal can be done by a toast and a little butter.”

“Photography is an art. It is more than an art, it is a solar phenomenon, where the artist collaborates with the sun.”

“It is the photographer's business to see.”

“In art there is no such thing as finality.”

“A work of art should have a purpose.”

“Any dodge, trick, and conjuration of any kind is open to the photographer's use...”

“My aspirations are to ennoble photography and to secure for it the position it ought to have among the arts.”

“The first rule in photography is to have no rules.”

“There is a great difference between taking a picture and making a photograph.”

“It may be safely asserted that no picture will be a success which has not a definite object, and in which that object is not intelligibly and simply expressed.”