“The theory of photography can be taught in an hour; the first ideas of how to go about it in a day.
What can’t be taught... is the feeling for light - the artistic appreciation of effects produced by different...sources; it’s the understanding of this or that effect following the lines of the features which required your artistic perception.
What is taught even less, is the immediate understanding of your subject - it’s this immediate contact which can put you in sympathy with the sitter, helps you to sum them up, follow their normal attitudes, their ideas, according to their personality, and enables you to make not just a chancy, dreary cardboard copy typical of the merest hack in the darkroom, but a likeness of the most intimate and happy kind....”
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