Some speak of a return to nature, I wonder where they could have been? — Frederick Sommer Copy Share Image
My photographs are not pure: they are a seething wealth of imperfection. — Frederick Sommer Copy Share Image
Words represent images: nothing can be said for which there is no image. — Frederick Sommer Copy Share Image
Everything is shared by everything else; there are no discontinuities. — Frederick Sommer Copy Share Image
Ideas and thoughts collide and sort themselves out in these fruitful collisions. — Frederick Sommer Copy Share Image
Life itself is not the reality. We are the ones who put life into stones and pebbles. — Frederick Sommer Copy Share Image
Poetic and speculative photographs can result if one works carefully and accurately, yet letting chance relationships have full play. — Frederick Sommer Copy Share Image
The field of action of a photograph should be that chessboard of the heart and mind upon which poetry and art have… — Frederick Sommer Copy Share Image
The only way to understand something is to be confronted by something that is difficult to understand. — Frederick Sommer Copy Share Image
If I could find them (assemblages) in nature I would photograph them. I make them because through photography I have a knowledge… — Frederick Sommer Copy Share Image
... art is images you carry. You cannot carry nature with you, but you carry images of nature. When you go out… — Frederick Sommer Copy Share Image
I could take a cow and implant a camera in it and let it amble around the city or in its own… — Frederick Sommer Copy Share Image
Photography is a distributive act leading to a privileged condition. — Frederick Sommer Copy Share Image
The coherent way of investigating any field is to examine its possible relatedness to other things. — Frederick Sommer Copy Share Image
Art is the splendor of reality before everything has become meaning. — Frederick Sommer Copy Share Image
The coherent way of investigating any field is to examine its possible relatedness to other things. — Frederick Sommer Copy Share
My photographs are not pure: they are a seething wealth of imperfection. — Frederick Sommer Copy Share
... art is images you carry. You cannot carry nature with you, but you carry images of nature. When you go out to make… — Frederick Sommer Copy Share
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 Copy Share
Ideas and thoughts collide and sort themselves out in these fruitful collisions. — Frederick Sommer Copy Share
