Art and accident are one.
Frederick Sommer
Art and accident are ...
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In total acceptance, almost everything becomes a revelation.
Frederick Sommer
Art accepts what it finds.
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
... 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
I could take a cow and implant a camera in it and let it amble around the city or in its own domain (I say a cow because a human being I would not trust). If the camera was programmed to go off at an indeterminate series of moments, the samplings would be fantastic.
Frederick Sommer
