RON HENGGELER

May 17, 2023
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 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

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

Max Ernst

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

All good ideas arrive by chance. 

Max Ernst

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 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

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

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

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

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

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

Man Ray

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

Max Ernst

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

Max Ernst

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

Man Ray

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

Man Ray

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

Color is the fruit of life. 

Guillaume Apollinaire

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

Man Ray

It's the viewer that makes the work. 

Marcel Duchamp

Memories are hunting horns whose sound dies on the wind. 

Guillaume Apollinaire

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

Your self is sacred; be true to it. 

Paul Brunton

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