My images are going to be among the very few great images done in North America by a white man.
- Frederick Sommer -
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The only way to understand something is to be confronted by something that is difficult to understand.
- Frederick Sommer
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The coherent way of investigating any field is to examine its possible relatedness to other things.
- Frederick Sommer
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Everything is shared by everything else; there are no discontinuities.
- Frederick Sommer
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Life itself is not the reality. We are the ones who put life into stones and pebbles.
- Frederick Sommer
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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
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...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
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Photography is a distributive act leading to a privileged condition.
- Frederick Sommer -
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Some speak of a return to nature. I wonder where they could have been.
- Frederick Sommer
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