Frederick Sommer Quotes

#1. There are, in truth, no specialties in medicine, since to know fully many of the most important diseases a man must be familiar with their manifestations in many organs.

William Osler

#2. 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

#3. Words represent images: nothing can be said for which there is no image.

Frederick Sommer

#4. 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

#5. How does a whale know when to swim to warmer waters for winter? How do the fish know whe a predator is near? How do you know when love is real? You just know.

Debbie Viguie

#6. Art is not arbitrary. A fine painting is not there by accident; it is not arrived at by chance. We are sensitive to tonalities.

Frederick Sommer

#7. Photography is a distributive act leading to a privileged condition.

Frederick Sommer

#8. Art and accident are one.

Frederick Sommer

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

Frederick Sommer

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

Frederick Sommer

#11. Whatever is necessary to do, you do it. When somebody needs to be killed, there's no wrong. You do it, and then you move on. And you pick up a child and you move him to the desert. You pick up as many children as you can, and you kill whoever gets in your way. That is us.

Sandra Good

#12. What are you afraid of, James? That you could actually start to like me?

Susann Julieva

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

Frederick Sommer

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

Frederick Sommer

#15. Choice and chance structure art and nature.

Frederick Sommer

#16. Art accepts what it finds.

Frederick Sommer

#17. 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

#18. I think basically I just think I want everyone and don't really want anybody.

Maureen Duffy

#19. The Americans lecture the world on democracy and then won't let me turn the traction control off!

Jeremy Clarkson

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

Frederick Sommer

#21. Reality is greater than our dreams.

Frederick Sommer

#22. 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

#23. Start copying what you love. Copy copy copy copy. At the end of the copy you will find yourself.

Yohji Yamamoto

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

Frederick Sommer

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

Frederick Sommer

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

Frederick Sommer

#27. Speaking as a minister it is my strong feeling that no man has a right to preach to a crowd that he has not prayed for.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

#28. Love requires an Object
But this varies so much
Almost, I imagine
anything will do:
When I was a child I
Loved a pumping engine
Thought it every bit as
Beautiful as you

Wystan H. Auden,

#29. Ideas and art are the possibility of an answer tomorrow.

Frederick Sommer

#30. In total acceptance, almost everything becomes a revelation.

Frederick Sommer

#31. But instead of the end, I'm pretty sure I found myself at the start of something.

Daniel H. Wilson

#32. Some people only hate you because of the way other people love you.

Karen Salmansohn

#33. It's about really having a God connection: a connection with the divine behind the world and flowing forth out of that in a positive way with love and moving toward making a contribution that pushes forth the evolution of the world.

James Redfield

#34. It is so important to talk about your cancer and the feelings you have about it.

Mindy Sterling

#35. In his entire life he'd never had the inclination to gather a woman up, cradle her against his chest and rock her just to soothe her - until now.

-Maxim's thoughts

Christine Feehan

#36. 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

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

Frederick Sommer

#38. Art is the splendor of reality before everything has become meaning.

Frederick Sommer

#39. The Art of Vermeer must have been there on the morning of creation.

Frederick Sommer