RON HENGGELER

April 14, 2023
Snapshots from inside the House of Jars

In your own bosom you bear your heaven and earth, 
And all you behold, though it appears without, 
It is within, in your imagination, 
Of which this world of mortality is but a shadow. 

William Blake

A cat's eyes are windows enabling us to see into another world.

Irish Legend

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

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

San Francisco is the genius of American cities.  It is the wild-eyed, all-fired, hard-boiled, tender-hearted, white-haired boy of the American family of cities.  It is the prodigal son.  The city which does everything and is always forgiven, because of its great heart, its gentle smile, its roaring laughter, its mysterious and magnificent personality.   There are no end of ways of enduring time in San Francisco, pleasantly, beautifully, and with the romance of living in everything.  Eat any kind of dish the races of the world know how to prepare.  Drink any kind of wine you like.  Go to the opera.  The symphony or a stage play.  Loaf around in the high-toned bars, or in the honky-tonks.  Sail the bay.  If you are alive, you can’t be bored in San Francisco.  If you’re not alive, San Francisco will bring you to life.  San Francisco is a world to explore.  It is a place where the heart can go on a delightful adventure.  It is a city in which the spirit can know refreshment every day. “(circa 1891)

I love cats because I enjoy my home; and little by little, they become its visible soul.

Jean Cocteau

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

Edward Stieglitz

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

Dorothea Lange

I still get wildly enthusiastic about little things... I play with leaves. I skip down the street and run against the wind.

Leo Buscaglia

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

You've gotta dance like there's nobody watching,

Love like you'll never be hurt,

Sing like there's nobody listening,

And live like it's heaven on earth.

William Purkey

When I adjust materials of different kinds to one another, I have taken a step in advance of mere oil painting, for in addition to playing off color against color, line against line, form against form, etc., I play off material against material, for example, wood against sackcloth. 

Kurt Schwitters

The imagination is not a state: it is the human existence itself." 

William Blake

Honest as the Cat when the meat's out of reach.

Old English saying

Photography is not about the thing photographed. It is about how that thing looks photographed. 

Garry Winogrand

This world is but a canvas to our imagination.

Henry David Thoreau

Color is the fruit of life. 

Guillaume Apollinaire  

Photography is not documentary, but intuition, a poetic experience. 

Henri Cartier-Bresson

Like a graceful vase, a cat, even when motionless, seems to flow.

George F. Will

We are a landscape of all we have seen. 

Isamu Noguchi

It’s the viewer that makes the work.

Marcel Duchamp

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

The dog may be wonderful prose, but only the cat is poetry.

French Proverb

The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider's web. 

Pablo Picasso

There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.

Albert Einstein

The cat went here and there 

And the moon spun round like a top, 

And the nearest kin of the moon, 

The creeping cat, looked up. 

Black Minnaloushe stared at the moon, 

For, wander and wail as he would, 

The pure cold light in the sky 

Troubled his animal blood. 

Minnaloushe runs in the grass

Lifting his delicate feet. 

Do you dance, Minnaloushe, 

do you dance? 

William Butler Yeats

There's no need for a piece of sculpture in a home that has a cat.

Wesley Bates

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

Man Ray

This is love: to fly toward a secret sky, to cause a hundred veils to fall each moment. 

First to let go of life. Finally, to take a step without feet.

Rumi 

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

There are few things in life more heart warming than to be welcomed by a cat.

Tay Hohoff

With photography, you zero in; you put a lot of energy into short moments, and then you go on to the next thing.

Robert Mapplethorpe

Every hour of every day is an unspeakably perfect miracle.

Walt Whitman

There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats.

Albert Schweitzer

We photographers deal in things which are continually vanishing, and when they have vanished there is no contrivance on earth can make them come back again. We cannot develop and print a memory.

Henri Cartier-Bresson

Alamo Square on April 18, 1906

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

Everything is a self-portrait.
Everything is a diary. 

Chuck Palahniuk

What is past is prologue. 

William Shakespeare