RON HENGGELER

June 4, 2023
random thoughts with pictures

I learned to love the journey, not the destination. I learned that this is not a dress rehearsal, and that today is the only guarantee you get. 

Anna Quindlen

Art is a magic which makes the hours melt away and even days dissolve into seconds. 

Leonora Carrington

What the eye sees is a synthesis of who you are and all you have learned. This is what I would call the language of photography. 

Graciela Iturbide

The power of finding beauty in the humblest things makes home happy and life lovely. 

Louisa May Alcott

I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn't say any other way - things I had no words for. 

Georgia O'Keeffe

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

Richard Avedon

Creativity is the quality that you bring to the activity that you are doing. It is an attitude, an inner approach - how you look at things . . . Whatsoever you do, if you do it joyfully, if you do it lovingly, if your act of doing is not purely economical, then it is creative. 

Rajneesh

If the sight of the blue skies fills you with joy, if a blade of grass springing up in the fields has power to move you, if the simple things of nature have a message that you understand, rejoice, for your soul is alive. 

Eleanora Duse

Whether he is an artist or not, the photographer is a joyous sensualist, for the simple reason that the eye traffics in feelings, not in thoughts. 

Walker Evans

Everything is energy in motion. 

Vilayat Inayat Khan

The shadows are as important as the light. 

Charlotte Bronte

The person who is in tune with the Universe becomes like a radio receiver, through which the voice of the Universe is transmitted. 

Hazrat Inayat Khan

Good photography is not about Zone Printing or any other Ansel Adams nonsense. It's just about seeing. You either see or you don't see. The rest is academic. Photography is simply a function of noticing things. Nothing more. 

Elliott Erwitt

There is no difference in the destination, the only difference is in the journey. 

Hazrat Inayat Khan

Which of my photographs is my favorite? The one I'm going to take tomorrow. 

Imogen Cunningham

You can't use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have. 

Maya Angelou

If one truly loves nature one finds beauty everywhere. 

Vincent Van Gogh

Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts.

Rachel Carson

A picture is the expression of an impression. If the beautiful were not in us, how would we ever recognize it? 

Ernst Haas

Beauty is simply reality seen with the eyes of love. 

Rabindranath Tagore

One doesn't need to know the artist's private intentions. The work tells all. 

Susan Sontag

Creativity depends on a number of things: experience, including knowledge and technical skills; talent; an ability to think in new ways; and the capacity to push through uncreative dry spells. 

Teresa Amabile

Sometimes I do get to places just when God's ready to have somebody click the shutter. In photography, the smallest thing can be a great subject. 

Ansel Adams

A good snapshot stops a moment from running away. 

Eudora Welty

Beauty is an experience, nothing else. It is not a fixed pattern or an arrangement of features. It is something felt, a glow or a communicated sense of fineness. 

D.H. Lawrence

Light makes photography. Embrace light. Admire it. Love it. But above all, know light. Know it for all you are worth, and you will know the key to photography. 

George Eastman

In times of dread, artists must never choose to remain silent. 

Toni Morrison

There is no happiness like that of being loved by your fellow creatures, and feeling that your presence is an addition to their comfort. 

Charlotte Bronte

Architecture is like a mythical fantastic. It has to be experienced. It can't be described. We can draw it up and we can make models of it, but it can only be experienced as a complete whole. 

Maya Lin

Some people look for a beautiful place, others make a place beautiful. 

Hazrat Inayat Khan

I think that any photographer is an investigator. Photography is a pretext to know the world, to know life. To know yourself. 

Graciela Iturbide

The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance. 

Aristotle

Collage is the noble conquest of the irrational, the coupling of two realities, irreconcilable in appearance, upon a plane which apparently does not suit them. 

Max Ernst

Nature is painting for us, day after day, pictures of infinite beauty. 

John Ruskin

There are always two people in every picture: the photographer and the viewer. 

Ansel Adams

There is nothing in the world that does not speak to us. Everything and everybody reveals its own nature, character and secrets continuously. The more open our inner senses, the more we understand the voice of everything. 

Hazrat Inayat Khan

Sculpture occupies real space like we do... you walk around it and relate to it almost as another person or another object. 

Chuck Close

To photograph is to hold one's breath, when all faculties converge to capture fleeting reality. It's at that precise moment that mastering an image becomes a great physical and intellectual joy. 

Henri Cartier-Bresson

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

The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera. 

Dorothea Lange

Wherever there is light, one can photograph. 

Alfred Stieglitz

I am forever chasing light. Light turns the ordinary into the magical. 

Trent Parke

Find beauty not only in the thing itself but in the pattern of the shadows, the light and dark which that thing provides. 

Junichiro Tanizaki

The whole world is an art gallery when you're mindful. There are beautiful things everywhere and they're free. 

Charles Tart

The little, human detail can become a Leitmotiv. 

Henri Cartier-Bresson

The unconscious obsession that we photographers have is that wherever we go we want to find the theme that we carry inside ourselves. 

Graciela Iturbide