RON HENGGELER

May 26, 2022
snapshots from around the house

dada

 

Every normal human being (and not merely the 'artist') has an inexhaustible store of buried images in his subconscious, it is merely a matter of courage or liberating procedures ... of voyages into the unconscious, to bring pure and unadulterated found objects to light. 

Max Ernst

 

The artist performs only one part of the creative process. The onlooker completes it, and it is the onlooker who has the last word. 

Marcel Duchamp

 

Every morning is like a new reincarnation into this world. Let us take it then for what it is and live each moment anew. 

Paul Brunton

 

The creative act is not performed by the artist alone; the spectator brings the work in contact with the external world by deciphering and interpreting its inner qualifications and thus adds his contribution to the creative act. 

Marcel Duchamp

 

 

 

Color is the fruit of life. 

Guillaume Apollinaire

I succeeded in simply attending at the birth of all my works. 

Max Ernst

 

To become truly immortal, a work of art must escape all human limits: logic and common sense will only interfere. But once these barriers are broken, it will enter the realms of childhood visions and dreams. 

Giorgio de Chirico

Memories are hunting horns whose sound dies on the wind. 

Guillaume Apollinaire

 

 

 

 

 

Everything has two aspects; the current aspect, which we see nearly always and which ordinary men see, and the ghostly and metaphysical aspect, which only rare individuals may see in moments of clairvoyance and metaphysical abstraction. 

Giorgio de Chirico

My works were designed to amuse, annoy, bewilder, mystify and inspire reflection.

Man Ray

 

 

Nature does not create works of art. It is we, and the faculty of interpretation peculiar to the human mind, that see art. 

Man Ray

 

 

Creativity is that marvelous capacity to grasp mutually distinct realities and draw a spark from their juxtaposition. 

Max Ernst

 

 

One must picture everything in the world as an enigma, and live in the world as if in a vast museum of strangeness. 

Giorgio de Chirico

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I have been accused of being a joker. But the most successful art to me involves humor. 

Man Ray

 

 

 

 

The life of an artist is like the life of a monk, a lewd monk if you like, very Rabelaisian. It is an ordination. 

Marcel Duchamp

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

All good ideas arrive by chance. 

Max Ernst

 

 

Dada is not modern at all, it is rather a return to a quasi-Buddhist religion of indifference. Dada puts an artificial sweetness onto things, a snow of butterflies coming out of a conjurer's skull. Dada is stillness and does not understand the passions. 

Tristan Tzara

 

I believe in the relation between photography and music; And that's my inspiration. 

Man Ray

The artist is a spectator, indifferent or impassioned, at the birth of his work, and observes the phases of its development. 

Max Ernst

 

 

 

 

 

I take photographs with love, so I try to make them art objects.

But I make them for myself first and foremost - that is important.

Jacques Henri-Lartigue

There is much more mystery in the shadow of a man walking on a sunny day, than in all religions of the world. 

Giorgio de Chirico

 

 

 

 

It's the viewer that makes the work. 

Marcel Duchamp

 

I never knew what I was doing until I was done. 

Man Ray

 

 

 

All photographs are accurate. None of them is the truth.

Richard Averdon

To take photographs means to recognize - simultaneously and within a fraction of a second - both the fact itself and the rigorous organization of visually perceived forms that give it meaning. It is putting one's head, one's eye and one's heart on the same axis.

Henri Cartier-Bresson

In photography there is a reality so subtle that it becomes more real than reality.

Edward Stieglitz

Collage is a supersensitive and scrupulously accurate instrument, similar to a seismograph, which is able to record the exact amount of the possibility of human happiness at any period. 

Max Ernst

 

 

 

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