A Quote by Frederick Sommer

Art and accident are one.

Frederick Sommer

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Accident Art

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Frederick Sommer
Artist
September 7, 1905 - January 23, 1999

Half of art is accident, but there is no accident without free experiment.

Ralph Steadman

When you make art, you get really invested in it. When art happens by accident and you were just along for the ride? It's way more fun.

Patrick Stump

All painting is an accident. But it's also not an accident, because one must select what part of the accident one chooses to preserve.

Francis Bacon

The creation of a virtual image is a form of accident. This explains why virtual reality is a cosmic accident. It's the accident of the real.

Paul Virilio

I had always loved Haitian art, but I stumbled onto Haiti quite by accident. I went there on vacation after finishing a movie called 'The Delta Factor,' and I met lot of painters and fell in love with their folk art.

Yvette Mimieux

You look at the U.S. budget deficit, and you cannot help but feel that this is a serious accident waiting to happen. And not just a serious U.S. accident, but a serious global accident.

Charles Dallara

With a movie you're creating from the beginning this particular work, let's not call it work of art, because very few movies are works of art, let's just call them bits of popular culture, whatever they are, sometimes very rarely by accident a movie becomes a work of art.