Frederick Sommer Quotes

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Some speak of a return to nature, I wonder where they could have been?

Frederick Sommer

The only way to understand something is to be confronted by something that is difficult to understand.

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

Everything is shared by everything else; there are no discontinuities.

Frederick Sommer

The coherent way of investigating any field is to examine its possible relatedness to other things.

Frederick Sommer

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

Frederick Sommer

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

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 minimum dimensions.

Frederick Sommer

Words represent images: nothing can be said for which there is no image.

Frederick Sommer

Frederick Sommer

Frederick Sommer

Born: September 7, 1905

Died: January 23, 1999 (aged 93)

Bio: Frederick Sommer, was an artist born in Angri, Italy and raised in Brazil. He earned a M.A. degree in Landscape Architecture from Cornell University where he met Frances Elisabeth Watson whom he married in 1928; they had no children.

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