Quote Originally Posted by Realist View Post
Well I'm not sure anyone really knows the secret to why something is better than something else. You can't put a formula like rules of composition and automatically get a good shot. Art is not a science, and I think that art is something people will never fully understand.
I pretty much agree with your assessment which is why I said "Maybe he doesn't really know, himself.". I just found it disconcerting that he didn't really come out and say that. He started off with the statement that we teach composition the same way we did 100 years ago and alluded to the fact that there is more to know than the standard old "rules" but then he never really came up with anything new.