Reality is greater than our dreams. Frederick Sommer More Quotes by Frederick Sommer More Quotes From Frederick Sommer Ideas and thoughts collide and sort themselves out in these fruitful collisions. Frederick Sommer photographyphotographerideas 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 arbitrarychanceart My photographs are not pure: they are a seething wealth of imperfection. Frederick Sommer imperfectionphotographyphotographer The Art of Vermeer must have been there on the morning of creation. Frederick Sommer vermeermorningart Life itself is not the reality. We are the ones who put life into stones and pebbles. Frederick Sommer photographystonesreality ... 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 photographyagreementart The only way to understand something is to be confronted by something that is difficult to understand. Frederick Sommer photographyphotographerway The coherent way of investigating any field is to examine its possible relatedness to other things. Frederick Sommer photographyfieldsway 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 elegancedimensionsstructure 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 camerascitieswould-be Photography is a distributive act leading to a privileged condition. Frederick Sommer privilegedconditionsphotography Art and accident are one. Frederick Sommer photographyphotographerart Art accepts what it finds. Frederick Sommer photographyphotographerart Poetic and speculative photographs can result if one works carefully and accurately, yet letting chance relationships have full play. Frederick Sommer chancephotographyplay 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 photographymindart 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 photographyphotographerfound Art is the splendor of reality before everything has become meaning. Frederick Sommer photographyrealityart Everything is shared by everything else; there are no discontinuities. Frederick Sommer discontinuityphotographyphotographer We work for that part of our vision which is uncompleted. Frederick Sommer visionphotographyphotographer
