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Famous Frederick Sommer Quotes
“Choice and chance structure art and nature.”
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“Ideas and thoughts collide and sort themselves out in these fruitful collisions.”
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“The Art of Vermeer must have been there on the morning of creation.”
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“Everything is shared by everything else; there are no discontinuities.”
Source: 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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“Life itself is not the reality. We are the ones who put life into stones and pebbles.”
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“My photographs are not pure: they are a seething wealth of imperfection.”
“Art is the splendor of reality before everything has become meaning.”
“Photography is a distributive act leading to a privileged condition.”
“Words represent images: nothing can be said for which there is no image.”
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“In total acceptance, almost everything becomes a revelation.”
Source: Venus, Jupiter & Mars: the photographs of Frederick Sommer : an exhibition at the Delaware Art Museum from April 27 through June 8, 1980
“Some speak of a return to nature, I wonder where they could have been?”
Source: Venus, Jupiter & Mars: the photographs of Frederick Sommer : an exhibition at the Delaware Art Museum from April 27 through June 8, 1980