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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.

Frederick Sommer

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Frederick Sommer
Age: 94 †
Born: 1905
Born: January 1
Died: 1999
Died: January 23
Painter
Photographer
Visual Artist
Fritz Sommer
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Art and accident are one.
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In total acceptance, almost everything becomes a revelation.
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Photography is a distributive act leading to a privileged condition.
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Reality is greater than our dreams.
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Some speak of a return to nature, I wonder where they could have been?
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Choice and chance structure art and nature.
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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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Life itself is not the reality. We are the ones who put life into stones and pebbles.
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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.
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Words represent images: nothing can be said for which there is no image.
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My photographs are not pure: they are a seething wealth of imperfection.
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