22 Quotes by Frederick Sommer

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

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

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

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

Art accepts what it finds.

Art and accident are one.

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

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

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