The only way to understand something is to be confronted by something that is difficult to understand. — 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
My photographs are not pure: they are a seething wealth of imperfection. — 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 to make… — Frederick Sommer Copy Share Image
Everything is shared by everything else; there are no discontinuities. — Frederick Sommer Copy Share Image
Art is the splendor of reality before everything has become meaning. — 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 always operated — Frederick Sommer Copy Share Image
