RON HENGGELER

July 18, 2024

A patchwork of summertime impressions

In the universe, there are things that are known, and things that are unknown, and in between, there are doors. 

William Blake

“To a traveler paying his first visit,  San Francisco has the interest of a new planet.  It ignores the meteorological laws which govern the rest of the world.”  

Friz Hugh Ludlow

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

Man Ray

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

The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.

Marcus Aurelius

It's the viewer that makes the work. 

Marcel Duchamp

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

Man Ray

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

In the right light, at the right time, everything is extraordinary.

Aaron Rose

You just have to live and life will give you pictures. 

Henri Cartier-Bresson

"You wouldn't think such a place as San Francisco could exist. The wonderful sunlight there, the hills, the great bridges, the Pacific at you shoes. . . The lobsters, clams, and crabs. Oh, Cat, what food for you. Every kind of seafood there is." 

Dylan Thomas, in a letter to his wife, Caitlin

Alice in Wonderland

What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.

Crowfoot, Blackfoot warrior and orator

The air has an indefinable softness and sweetness—a tonic quality that braces the nerves to a joyous tension, making the very sense of existence a delight.     

Scribner's Monthly

Find ecstasy in life; the mere sense of living is joy enough.

Emily Dickinson

Mid pleasures and palaces though we may roam, Be it ever so humble, there’s no place like home.  

John Howard Payne

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

"Every hour of every day is an unspeakably perfect miracle."

Walt Whitman

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

Max Ernst

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

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

"Life is a mirror and will reflect back to the thinker what he thinks into it."

Ernest Holmes

Everything you can imagine is real.

Pablo Picasso

We are such stuff as dreams are made on; and our little life is rounded with a sleep. 

William Shakespeare

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

Where thou art, that is home. 

Emily Dickinson

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

This world is but a canvas to our imagination.

Henry David Thoreau

Being homeless is like living in a post-apocalyptic world. You're on the outskirts of society. 

Frank Dillane

San Francisco

That City of Gold to which adventurers congregated out of all the winds of heaven. I wonder what enchantment of the 'Arabian Nights' can have equaled this evocation of a roaring city, in a few years of a man's life, from the marshes and the blowing sand.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Home, the spot of earth supremely blest,
A dearer, sweeter spot than all the rest. 

Robert Montgomery

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

Seven out of ten Americans are one paycheck away from being homeless. 

Pras Michel

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

Home is where the heart is. 

Pliny the Elder

The truth is you don't know what is going to happen tomorrow. Life is a crazy ride, and nothing is guaranteed.

Eminem

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

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

Max Ernst