Frederick Sommer Quotes
- In total acceptance, almost everything becomes a revelation.
- The only way to understand something is to be confronted by something that is difficult to understand.
- The field of action of a photograph should be that chessboard of the heart and mind upon which poetry and art have always operated
- Some speak of a return to nature, I wonder where they could have been?
- Reality is greater than our dreams.
- Art is not arbitrary. A fine painting is not there by accident; it is not arrived at by chance. We are sensitive to tonalities.
- Choice and chance structure art and nature.
- Ideas and thoughts collide and sort themselves out in these fruitful collisions.
- The Art of Vermeer must have been there on the morning of creation.
- Ideas and art are the possibility of an answer tomorrow.
- 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.
- We work for that part of our vision which is uncompleted.