Excerpt from Pictorial Composition in Photography
To tell a photographer how to compose his pictures is like telling a musician how to compose music, an author how to write a novel or an actor how to act a part. Such things can only grow out of the fulness and experience of life. Yet the musician must learn harmony and counterpoint, the novelist must know the rules of grammar and the proper use of words, the actor must study elocution, and all of these are more or less exact sciences which can be taught. Their application is entirely individual.
So in pictorial photography, some principles of composition can be acquired from books, but the most important element of success - the personality and soul of the artist - must be implanted in the individual and must grow with his experience.
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