Top 25 Quotes & Sayings by Frederick Sommer

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an artist Frederick Sommer.

Last updated on November 18, 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.

Artist | September 7, 1905 - January 23, 1999

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

Frederick Sommer

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

Frederick Sommer

Reality is greater than our dreams.

Frederick Sommer

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

Frederick Sommer

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

Frederick Sommer

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

Frederick Sommer

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

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

Frederick Sommer

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

Frederick Sommer

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

Art accepts what it finds.

Frederick Sommer

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

Frederick Sommer

In total acceptance, almost everything becomes a revelation.

Frederick Sommer

Art and accident are one.

Frederick Sommer

Ideas and art are the possibility of an answer tomorrow.

Frederick Sommer

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

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

Choice and chance structure art and nature.

Frederick Sommer

Some speak of a return to nature, I wonder where they could have been?

Frederick Sommer

... 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