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

- Frederick Sommer

In total acceptance, almost everything becomes a revelation.

- Frederick Sommer

The smallest modification of tonality affects structure. Some things have to be rather large, but elegance is the presentation of things in their min…

- Frederick Sommer

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

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

- Frederick Sommer

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

- Frederick Sommer

... 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 mov…

- Frederick Sommer

Ideas and art are the possibility of an answer tomorrow.

- Frederick Sommer

Reality is greater than our dreams.

- Frederick Sommer