RON HENGGELER

November 18, 2023
Pictures from around the house 

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

One should really use the camera as though tomorrow you'd be stricken blind.

Dorothea Lange

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

This benefit of seeing...can come only if you pause a while, extricate yourself from the maddening mob of quick impressions ceaselessly battering our lives, and look thoughtfully at a quiet image...the viewer must be willing to pause, to look again, to meditate.

Dorothea Lange

Color is the fruit of life. 

Guillaume Apollinaire

Whether working or not, photographers are looking, seeing, and thinking about what they see, a habit that is both a pleasure and a problem, for we seldom capture in a single photograph the full expression of what we see and feel. 

Sam Abell

To me, photography is the simultaneous recognition, in a fraction of a second, of the significance of an event.

Henri Cartier-Bresson

Anything that excites me for any reason, I will photograph; not searching for unusual subject matter, but making the commonplace unusual. 

Edward Weston

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

Your self is sacred; be true to it. 

Paul Brunton

Bring the viewer to your side, include him in your thought. He is not a bystander. You have the power to increase his perceptions and conceptions. 

Dorothea Lange

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

My best work is often almost unconscious and occurs ahead of my ability to understand it. 

Sam Abell

It's the viewer that makes the work. 

Marcel Duchamp

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

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

Man Ray

Adventure isn't hanging on a rope off the side of a mountain. Adventure is an attitude that we must apply to the day to day obstacles of life. 

John Amatt

Photography is a very subtle thing. You must let the camera take you by the hand, as it were, and lead you into your subject. 

Margaret Bourke-White

Art will remain the most astonishing activity of mankind, born out of struggle between wisdom and madness, between dream and reality, in our mind. 

Magdalena Abakanowicz

The very secret of life for me, I believed, was to maintain in the midst of rushing events an inner tranquility. 

Margaret Bourke-White

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

Max Ernst

Photography is a way of shouting, of freeing oneself, not of proving or asserting one's own originality. It's a way of life. 

Henri Cartier-Bresson

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

Man Ray

Art's whatever you choose to frame. 

Fleur Adcock

All good ideas arrive by chance. 

Max Ernst

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

Max Ernst

Art is not so much expressing oneself, as it is discovering oneself. 

Anawanitia

One of the joys of photography is that you never know what will come at you from around the next corner. 

Tom Ang

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

The man who never in his mind and thoughts travel'd to heaven is no artist. 

William Blake

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

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

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

Every morning I am a beginner.

Hanya Holm

Anything that excites me for any reason, I will photograph; not searching for unusual subject matter, but making the commonplace unusual. 

Edward Weston

It is a peculiar part of the good photographer's adventure to know where luck is most likely to lie in the stream, to hook it, and to bring it in without unfair play and without too much subduing it. 

James Agee

The artist and the photographer seek the mysteries and the adventure of experience in nature. 

Ansel Adams

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

Man Ray

Photograph what makes you happy. It may not have value to anyone else, but it will have value to you. 

David Allio

A certain amount of contempt for the material employed to express an idea is indispensable to the purest realization of this idea. 

Man Ray

Photography is a way of feeling, of touching, of loving. What you have caught on film is captured forever... it remembers little things, long after you have forgotten everything. 

Aaron Siskind

A photograph is a secret about a secret. The more it tells you the less you know. 

Diane Arbus

You can only become truly accomplished at something you love. Don't make money your goal. Instead, pursue the things you love doing, and then do them so well that people can't take their eyes off you. 

Maya Angelou

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

A photograph is neither taken nor seized by force. It offers itself up. It is the photo that takes you. One must not take photos. 

Henri Catrier-Bresson

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

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

Max Ernst

Memories are hunting horns whose sound dies on the wind. 

Guillaume Apollinaire

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