January 15, 1929 - April 4, 1968

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

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

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

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

A 17 Minute Listen, to the 'I Have A Dream' Speech, In Its Entirety

 

Give every day the chance to become the most beautiful day of your life.

Mark Twain

Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.

Voltaire

 

Mark Anstendig

November 3, 1936 - November 8, 2019

Galley of Photos by Mark Anstendig

Oh, beauty, ever ancient and ever new.

Saint Augustine

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

Anawanitia

 

Time is nature's way of keeping everything from happening at once.

Woody Allen

I've learned that no matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow.

Maya Angelou

Top row, third child from the teacher, striped shirt . . . Ron H.

Anybody with artistic ambitions is always trying to reconnect with the way they saw things as a child.

Tim Burton

 

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

 

 

 

The sunrise, of course, doesn't care if we watch it or not. It will keep on being beautiful, even if no one bothers to look at it.

Gene Amole

 

I have always been very much involved in the pseudo biological cycle of production, consumption and destruction. And for a long time, I have been anguished by the fact that one of its most conspicuous material results is the flooding of our world with junk and rejected odd objects.

Arman

Nothing gives quite the satisfaction that doing things brings. 

Sherwood Anderson

Actor Martin Harvey in period costume, 1899.

 

Art can never exist without Naked Beauty display'd. 

William Blake

Brotherhood of Man

On display inside of Grace Cathedral on Nob Hill, San Francisco

By artist Rodney Winfield, comissioned by Meri Jaye & Associates

 

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

William Blake

The thing, of course, is to make yourself alive. Most people remain all of their lives in a stupor. The point of being an artist is that you may live.

Sherwood Anderson

The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

Common sense is not so common.

Voltaire

There is nothing more meaningful than being true to yourself and finding your own voice. Follow your heart and don't let anyone discourage you.

Jane Fulton Alt

Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.

Gertrude Stein

Front cover of the July 2006 Nob Hill Gazette

Photo by R H, taken from the entrance of the Fairmont Hotel on Nob Hill.

Hog farm employees, Tule Lake Relocation Center, Newell, California,

by John Cook, circa 1942-45.

 

 

Alice: "How long is forever?" White Rabbit: "Sometimes, just one second."

Lewis Carroll

If you must have a rule to follow, I would suggest cultivating a dialogue with your inner voice... If you listen to the clues your own images offer, the resulting work will be fresh, and authentic. Fall in love with your world . . .

Jane Fulton Alt 

Every day is a renewal, every morning the daily miracle. This joy you feel is life.

Gertrude Stein

 

 

Nob Hill in San Francisco 1924

 

Tyrants have always some slight shade of virtue; they support the laws before destroying them.

Voltaire

Alan

Il Tuffatore (The Diver), by Nino Migliori

1951

No vision and you perish; / No Ideal, and you're lost; / Your heart must ever cherish / Some faith at any cost. / Some hope, some dream to cling to, / Some rainbow in the sky, / Some melody to sing to, / Some service that is high.

Harriet du Autermont

Sneggie

(Snegurochka) of Russian Fairy Tales

The tale of Snegurochka, or The Snow Maiden, is often beautifully depicted on hand-painted Russian crafts. This Snegurochka is the daughter of Spring and Winter who appears to a childless couple as a winter blessing.

Giant Typewriter in the Underwood Typewriter Factory Booth in the Palace of Liberal Arts.

In the early twentieth century, a splendid walled city of domed palaces, palm-lined courts, and monumental statuary arose on San Francisco's northern shore. The 1915 Panama-Pacific International Exposition (PPIE)—a world's fair commemorating the opening of the Panama Canal just nine years after the devastating earthquake and fires of 1906—emerged on 635 acres of land previously submerged by water.

Alexander, visiting from the Republic of Georgia.

His boyhood dream was to someday see the Golden Gate Bridge in person.

You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.

Jack London

 

 

Excuse me while I kiss the sky.

Jimi Hendrix

Mrs. Meri Jaye

Collage graphic by R H

1988

It is paint's organic nature that helps me to understand life. For within the act of painting there is a history, a continuum of alchemy through the Ages that lives on in paint.

Lori Agostino

 

 

I've learned that you can tell a lot about a person by the way he/she handles these three things: a rainy day, lost luggage, and tangled Christmas tree lights.

Maya Angelou

No amount of evidence will ever persuade an idiot.

Mark Twain

Fillmore Street, San Francisco

 

6th and Clement in San Francisco

Jack London

There is an ecstasy that marks the summit of life, and beyond which life cannot rise. And such is the paradox of living, this ecstasy comes when one is most alive, and it comes as a complete forgetfulness that one is alive.

 

Haight Street, San Francisco

2014

 

One day's happiness often predicts the next day's creativity.

Teresa Amabile

 

Take clear water with grass waving at the bottom. It's wonderful to look at, but to try to paint it is enough to make one insane.

Claude Monet

 

The visionary is the one who brings his or her voice into the world and who refuses to edit, rehearse, perform, or hide. It is the visionary who knows that the power of creativity is aligned with authenticity.

Angeles Arrien

Golden Gate Park, San Francisco

 

San Francisco VA Medical Center (Fort Miley)

Berkeley Big People

A sculpture by Scott Donahue, on the San Francisco Bay Trail Pedestrian/Bicycle Bridge that crosses over I-80.

Berkeley, California

 

Often the most unique, compelling work comes not from a concept or an idea but from a deep, wordless place inside the artist.

Juliette Aristides

Mark Anstendig's nephew David

I'm not black, but there's a whole lot of times I wish I could say I'm not white.

Frank Zappa

Whatever is worth doing is worth doing well.

Lewis Carroll

San Francisco Fire Department

2011

 

 

Mason and California on Nob Hill

Nikita Khrushchev's visit to San Francisco

OpenSFHistory

The Pink Triangle in San Francisco

The 25th Anniversary of the Pink Triangle

A 17 Minute Listen, to the 'I Have A Dream' Speech, In Its Entirety

Collage graphic by R H

No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings.

William Blake

 

Why is it that people with the most narrow of minds seem to have the widest of mouths?

Lewis Carroll

 

Bijan

 

 

 

 

The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubts, while the stupid ones are full of confidence.

Charles Bukowski

 

The Pink Triangle in San Francisco

Snow in San Francisco

1976

1939 Golden Gate International Exposition as seen from Telegraph Hill in San Francisco

Photo by Marcello Camarri

September 9, 2013

The State Funeral for Gay Rights Pioneer Jose Sarria

 

Alice: This is impossible. The Mad Hatter: Only if you believe it is.

Lewis Carroll

Les Frères, by Robert Doisneau, 1934.

The object of art is not to make salable pictures. It is to save yourself. 

Sherwood Anderson

 

 

Collage graphic by R H

2009

 

 

You are extraordinary within your limits, but your limits are extraordinary!

Gertrude Stein

 

The world is not accidental - there is a designer. And the divine voice speaks to us through the physical world.

Juliette Aristides

 

 

What if nothing exists and we're all in somebody's dream?

Woody Allen

 

Collage graphic by R H

circa. 1985

Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely.

Auguste Rodin

 

R H photographing a participant of the San Francisco Pride Parade, circa. 1980

 

Male nude, by Demetrio Cosola

1875

Most people say about graveyards: "Oh, it's just a bunch of dead people. It's creepy." But for me, there's an energy to it that it not creepy, or dark. It has a positive sense to it.

Tim Burton

Photograph by J. Van der Heyden, Antwerp, circa 1915-20.

Colouring does not depend on where the colours are put, but on where the lights and darks are put, and all depends on form and outline, on where that is put.

William Blake 

 

But, I nearly forgot, you must close your eyes otherwise you won't see anything.

Lewis Carroll

 

 

I have unbounded admiration for the nude. I worship it like a god.

Auguste Rodin

A 17 Minute Listen, to the 'I Have A Dream' Speech, In Its Entirety

 

A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song. 

Maya Angelou