Frederick Sommer quotes
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“Art is the splendor of reality before everything has become meaning.”
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“Everything is shared by everything else; there are no discontinuities.”
-- Frederick SommerSource : Frederick Sommer, John Weiss, University of Delaware. Dept. of Art, Delaware Art Museum (1980). “Venus, Jupiter & Mars: the photographs of Frederick Sommer : an exhibition at the Delaware Art Museum from April 27 through June 8, 1980”
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“The coherent way of investigating any field is to examine its possible relatedness to other things.”
-- Frederick SommerSource : Frederick Sommer, University of Arizona. Center for Creative Photography (1984). “Sommer: . Images”
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“Life itself is not the reality. We are the ones who put life into stones and pebbles.”
-- Frederick SommerSource : Frederick Sommer, Stephen Aldrich (1987). “The mistress of this world has no name”
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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.”
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“My photographs are not pure: they are a seething wealth of imperfection.”
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“Poetic and speculative photographs can result if one works carefully and accurately, yet letting chance relationships have full play.”
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“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.”
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“We work for that part of our vision which is uncompleted.”
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“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 SommerSource : Frederick Sommer (1984). “Sommer: Words”
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“The only way to understand something is to be confronted by something that is difficult to understand.”
-- Frederick SommerSource : Frederick Sommer, John Weiss, University of Delaware. Dept. of Art, Delaware Art Museum (1980). “Venus, Jupiter & Mars: the photographs of Frederick Sommer : an exhibition at the Delaware Art Museum from April 27 through June 8, 1980”
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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”
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“Some speak of a return to nature, I wonder where they could have been?”
-- Frederick SommerSource : Frederick Sommer, John Weiss, University of Delaware. Dept. of Art, Delaware Art Museum (1980). “Venus, Jupiter & Mars: the photographs of Frederick Sommer : an exhibition at the Delaware Art Museum from April 27 through June 8, 1980”
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“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 SommerSource : Frederick Sommer (1984). “Sommer: Words”
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“Choice and chance structure art and nature.”
-- Frederick SommerSource : Frederick Sommer, University of Arizona. Center for Creative Photography (1984). “Sommer: . Images”
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“Ideas and thoughts collide and sort themselves out in these fruitful collisions.”
-- Frederick SommerSource : Frederick Sommer (1984). “Sommer: Words”
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“The Art of Vermeer must have been there on the morning of creation.”
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“Ideas and art are the possibility of an answer tomorrow.”
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“In total acceptance, almost everything becomes a revelation.”
-- Frederick Sommer
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