RON HENGGELER

May 22, 2024
shots from around the house 

"I take photographs with love, so I try to make them art objects. But I make them for myself first and foremost - that is important. "                   

Jacques Henri-Lartigue

"To the one who knows how to look and feel, every moment of this free wandering life is an enchantment."

Alexandra David Neel

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

Henri Cartier-Bresson

Chiaroscuro is an Italian term which literally means ‘light-dark’. In paintings and photos, the description refers to clear tonal contrasts which are often used to suggest the volume and modeling of the subjects depicted.

"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

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

Chuck Palahniuk

"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

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

Dorothea Lange

"The soul should always stand ajar, ready to welcome the ecstatic experience."      

Emily Dickinson

"Imagination is the highest kite one can fly."

Lauren Bacall

"To see a world in a grain of sand

And a heaven in a wild flower,

Hold infinity in the palm of your hand,

And eternity in an hour."

William Blake

"All art is autobiographical. The pearl is the oyster's autobiography."

Federico Fellini

"To me every hour of the light and dark is a miracle, every cubic inch of space is a miracle. "

Walt Whitman

"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

"It's the viewer that makes the work."

Marcel Duchamp

"Living is a horizontal fall." 

Jean Cocteau

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

Man Ray

"Color is the fruit of life. "

Guillaume Apollinaire

"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

"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

"When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive - to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love."

Marcus Aurelius