I could take a cow and implant a camera in it and let it amble around the city or in its own domain (I say a cow because a human being I would not trust). If the camera was programmed to go off at an indeterminate series of moments, the samplings would be fantastic.

Frederick Sommer

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Ideas and thoughts collide and sort themselves out in these fruit... by Frederick Sommer

Ideas and thoughts collide and sort themselves out in these fruitful collisions.

Frederick Sommer

photography photographer ideas

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

arbitrary chance art

My photographs are not pure: they are a seething wealth of imperf... by Frederick Sommer

My photographs are not pure: they are a seething wealth of imperfection.

Frederick Sommer

imperfection photography photographer

The Art of Vermeer must have been there on the morning of creatio... by Frederick Sommer

The Art of Vermeer must have been there on the morning of creation.

Frederick Sommer

vermeer morning art

Life itself is not the reality. We are the ones who put life into... by Frederick Sommer

Life itself is not the reality. We are the ones who put life into stones and pebbles.

Frederick Sommer

photography stones reality

... 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

photography agreement art

The only way to understand something is to be confronted by something that is difficult to understand.

Frederick Sommer

photography photographer way

The coherent way of investigating any field is to examine its pos... by Frederick Sommer

The coherent way of investigating any field is to examine its possible relatedness to other things.

Frederick Sommer

photography fields way

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

elegance dimensions structure

Photography is a distributive act leading to a privileged conditi... by Frederick Sommer

Photography is a distributive act leading to a privileged condition.

Frederick Sommer

privileged conditions photography

Art and accident are one. by Frederick Sommer

Art and accident are one.

Frederick Sommer

photography photographer art

Art accepts what it finds. by Frederick Sommer

Art accepts what it finds.

Frederick Sommer

photography photographer art

Poetic and speculative photographs can result if one works carefully and accurately, yet letting chance relationships have full play.

Frederick Sommer

chance photography play

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

photography mind art

Words represent images: nothing can be said for which there is no... by Frederick Sommer

Words represent images: nothing can be said for which there is no image.

Frederick Sommer

said

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 is the splendor of reality before everything has become meani... by Frederick Sommer

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

Frederick Sommer

photography reality art

Everything is shared by everything else; there are no discontinui... by Frederick Sommer

Everything is shared by everything else; there are no discontinuities.

Frederick Sommer

discontinuity photography photographer

We work for that part of our vision which is uncompleted. by Frederick Sommer

We work for that part of our vision which is uncompleted.

Frederick Sommer

vision photography photographer

Ideas and art are the possibility of an answer tomorrow. by Frederick Sommer

Ideas and art are the possibility of an answer tomorrow.

Frederick Sommer

photography ideas art