{"id":15382,"date":"2015-07-06T11:55:57","date_gmt":"2015-07-06T15:55:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johnpaulcaponigro.com\/blog\/?p=15382"},"modified":"2015-07-06T11:55:57","modified_gmt":"2015-07-06T15:55:57","slug":"21-quotes-by-photographer-fredrick-sommer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johnpaulcaponigro.com\/blog\/15382\/21-quotes-by-photographer-fredrick-sommer\/","title":{"rendered":"21 Quotes By Photographer Fredrick Sommer"},"content":{"rendered":"

 
\nEnjoy this collection of quotes by photographer\u00a0Fredrick Sommer<\/a>.<\/span>
\n\u201cThe only way to understand something is to be confronted by something that is difficult to understand.\u201d – Frederick Sommer
\n\u201cEverything is shared by everything else; there are no discontinuities.\u201d – Frederick Sommer
\n\u201cThe coherent way of investigating any field is to examine its possible relatedness to other things.\u201d – Frederick Sommer
\n\u201cPhotography is a distributive act leading to a privileged condition.\u201d – Frederick Sommer\u201d – Fred Sommer
\n\u201cLife itself is not the reality. We are the ones who put life into stones and pebbles.\u201d – Frederick Sommer
\n\u201cSome speak of a return to nature. I wonder where they could have been.\u201d – Frederick Sommer
\n\u201c\u2026 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.\u201d – Frederick Sommer
\n\u201cThe field of action of a photograph should be that chessboard of the heart and mind upon which poetry and art have always operated.\u201d – Frederick Sommer
\n\u201cMy photographs are not pure: they are a seething wealth of imperfection.\u201d – Frederick Sommer
\n\u201cPoetic and speculative photographs can result if one works carefully and accurately, yet letting chance relationships have full play.\u201d – Frederick Sommer
\n\u201cIf 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\u2019t be found.\u201d – Frederick Sommer
\n\u201cArt is not arbitrary. A fine painting is not there by accident; it is not arrived at by chance.\u201d – Frederick Sommer
\n\u201cArt and accident are one.\u201d – Frederick Sommer
\n\u201cChoice and chance structure art and nature.\u201d – Frederick Sommer
\n\u201cIdeas and thoughts collide and sort themselves out in these fruitful collisions.\u201d – Frederick Sommer
\n\u201cIdeas and art are the possibility of an answer tomorrow.\u201d – Frederick Sommer
\n\u201cArt accepts what it finds.\u201d – Frederick Sommer
\n\u201cIn total acceptance, almost everything becomes a revelation.\u201d – Frederick Sommer
\n\u201cArt is the splendor of reality before everything has become meaning.\u201d – Frederick Sommer
\n\u201cReality is greater than our dreams.\u201d – Frederick Sommer
\n\u201cWe work for that part of our vision which is uncompleted.\u201d – Frederick Sommer
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