"Art is not arbitrary. A fine painting is not there by accident; it is not arrived at by chance. We are sensitive to tonalities."

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Source : Frederick Sommer (1984). “Sommer: Words”

Frederick Sommer

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“If we are going to stay a great power and I hope and pray we will we need the truth. We need to know what is going right and we need to know what is going wrong. There is no greater time than now.”
“The Internet, I'm trying to point out, is a kooks' paradise. Anybody with a keyboard and a modem can spread fear, loathing, and just plain asinine ideas among hundreds of thousands of people with the click of a button. Discouraging, but true.”
“How can I throw my life away in the least unhappy way?”
“Sometimes when you're heavy into the shooting or editing of a picture, you get to the point where you don't know if you could ever do it again.”
“Being an actress is a very physical thing. If I didn't look the way I looked, I would never have started in films.”
“Well, I think I'm not a non-believer, and I'm not a believer. But, on the other hand, I couldn't give you a good enough reason why EVP doesn't exist. I don't know enough about it, so how could I say it's not true. Plus, a person's reality is a person's reality so that's your belief system. It's all perception anyway, isn't it.”
“The essence of how God thinks and feels is wholehearted love.”
“It is the steady and merciless increase of occupations, the augmented speed at which we are always trying to live, the crowding of each day with more work than it can profitably hold, which has cost us, among other things, the undisturbed enjoyment of friends. Friendship takes time, and we have no time to give it.”

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