Frederick Sommer famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Art is the splendor of reality before everything has become meaning.
-- Frederick Sommer

#Art #Reality #Splendor
Everything is shared by everything else; there are no discontinuities.
-- Frederick Sommer

#Photographer #Discontinuity
The coherent way of investigating any field is to examine its possible relatedness to other things.
-- Frederick Sommer

#Way #Fields #Photographer
Life itself is not the reality. We are the ones who put life into stones and pebbles.
-- Frederick Sommer

#Reality #Stones #Pebbles
... art is images you carry. You cannot carry nature with you, but you carry images of nature. When you go out to make a picture you find you are moved by something which is in agreement with an image you already held within yourself.
-- Frederick Sommer

#Art #Agreement #Photographer
My photographs are not pure: they are a seething wealth of imperfection.
-- Frederick Sommer

#Imperfection #Photographer #Wealth
Poetic and speculative photographs can result if one works carefully and accurately, yet letting chance relationships have full play.
-- Frederick Sommer

#Play #Chance #Photographer
If I could find them (assemblages) in nature I would photograph them. I make them because through photography I have a knowledge of things that can't be found.
-- Frederick Sommer

#Photography #Photographer #Found
Art and accident are one.
-- Frederick Sommer

#Art #Photographer #Accidents
Art accepts what it finds.
-- Frederick Sommer

#Art #Photographer #Accepting
We work for that part of our vision which is uncompleted.
-- Frederick Sommer

#Vision
The smallest modification of tonality affects structure. Some things have to be rather large, but elegance is the presentation of things in their minimum dimensions.
-- Frederick Sommer

#Dimensions #Elegance #Structure
The only way to understand something is to be confronted by something that is difficult to understand.
-- Frederick Sommer

#Way #Difficult
The field of action of a photograph should be that chessboard of the heart and mind upon which poetry and art have always operated
-- Frederick Sommer

#Art #Mind #Fields
Some speak of a return to nature, I wonder where they could have been?
-- Frederick Sommer

#Return #Wonder #Speak
Reality is greater than our dreams.
-- Frederick Sommer

#Dream #Reality
Art is not arbitrary. A fine painting is not there by accident; it is not arrived at by chance. We are sensitive to tonalities.
-- Frederick Sommer

#Art #Arbitrary #Chance
Choice and chance structure art and nature.
-- Frederick Sommer

#Art #Choices #Chance
Ideas and thoughts collide and sort themselves out in these fruitful collisions.
-- Frederick Sommer

#Ideas #Collide #Collision
The Art of Vermeer must have been there on the morning of creation.
-- Frederick Sommer

#Art #Morning #Vermeer
Ideas and art are the possibility of an answer tomorrow.
-- Frederick Sommer

#Art #Ideas #Answers
In total acceptance, almost everything becomes a revelation.
-- Frederick Sommer

#Acceptance #Revelations

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