Explore popular quotes and sayings by an artist Frederick Sommer.
Last updated on December 19, 2024.
Frederick Sommer, was an artist born in Angri, Italy and raised in Brazil. He earned a M.A. degree in Landscape Architecture (1927) from Cornell University where he met Frances Elizabeth Watson (1904–1999) whom he married in 1928; they had no children. The Sommers moved to Tucson, Arizona in 1931 and then Prescott, Arizona in 1935. Sommer became a naturalized citizen of the United States on November 18, 1939.
We work for that part of our vision which is uncompleted.
Poetic and speculative photographs can result if one works carefully and accurately, yet letting chance relationships have full play.
Reality is greater than our dreams.
Everything is shared by everything else; there are no discontinuities.
My photographs are not pure: they are a seething wealth of imperfection.
Ideas and thoughts collide and sort themselves out in these fruitful collisions.
The field of action of a photograph should be that chessboard of the heart and mind upon which poetry and art have always operated
Life itself is not the reality. We are the ones who put life into stones and pebbles.
The coherent way of investigating any field is to examine its possible relatedness to other things.
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.
Art accepts what it finds.
The only way to understand something is to be confronted by something that is difficult to understand.
In total acceptance, almost everything becomes a revelation.
Art and accident are one.
Ideas and art are the possibility of an answer tomorrow.
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.
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.
Choice and chance structure art and nature.
Some speak of a return to nature, I wonder where they could have been?
... 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.
The Art of Vermeer must have been there on the morning of creation.
Art is not arbitrary. A fine painting is not there by accident; it is not arrived at by chance. We are sensitive to tonalities.
Photography is a distributive act leading to a privileged condition.
Art is the splendor of reality before everything has become meaning.
Words represent images: nothing can be said for which there is no image.