Ideas and thoughts collide and sort themselves out in these fruitful collisions. Frederick Sommer More Quotes by Frederick Sommer More Quotes From Frederick Sommer 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 imperfection. Frederick Sommer imperfection photography photographer 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 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 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 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 cameras cities would-be Photography is a distributive act leading to a privileged condition. Frederick Sommer privileged conditions photography Art and accident are one. Frederick Sommer photography photographer art 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 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 meaning. Frederick Sommer photography reality art 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. Frederick Sommer vision photography photographer Ideas and art are the possibility of an answer tomorrow. Frederick Sommer photography ideas art
