From the Archive: Scots Salon of Photography; 9 October 1950
Sir Charles Holmes, who was a director of the National Gallery in London, said certain rules were observed by all great painters. Unfortunately, in his opinion, some artists to-day had thrown over these old rules and some of the modern pictures were frightening and disturbing. The last occasion on which he came away from one of the best-known London galleries he thought he had come out of a madhouse. He was innocent enough to believe that one of the main objects of art was to produce beautiful things and so elevate all of us. Lord Kinnaird said he would like to make a reference to Press photography. He thought it wonderful what those gallant men who went overseas with our forces did to make what was going on in the world interesting to people at home at the risk of their lives.