Ron English
Ron English (born June 3, 1959) is an American contemporary artist who explores brand imagery, street art and advertising.
Quotes
[edit]Death and the Eternal Forever (2014)
[edit]English, Ron. Death and the Eternal Forever (2014). London. ISBN 978-0-9576649-2-0. OCLC 868078912.
- The only good artist is a dead artist.
- Death is more interesting from a distance.
- The womb is the first portal to the hereafter.
- The rumors of my death are only a pending reality.
- Even if you live to one hundred, you’ll still be dead forever.
- Death is nature’s way of staying in charge.
- Everyone is dead in heaven.
- I can no more imagine my demise than remember my birth.
- There is much to accomplish before I become fertilizer for the foliage.
- Live life like you're writing your own obituary.
- No evil comes from the fear of hell, no good comes from the promise of heaven.
Ron English's Fauxlosophy (2016)
[edit]English, Ron. Ron English's fauxlosophy (First edition ed.). [Darlington]. ISBN 978-1-908211-45-3. OCLC 928121529.
- In the future everyone will be dead for 15 minutes.
- My reflections always get it backwards.
- Evolution is the myth that keeps on morphing.
- Narcissism makes me feel better about myself.
- Fame always finds the village idiot.
- Art is the canary in the goldmine.
- Sell a man a fish and he will eat for a day. Teach a man to fish and he will put you out of a job.
- Last place is first place in the very next race.
- You can’t judge a book while it’s on fire.
- You don’t protest air pollution by holding your breath.
- There’s nothing to dream about in heaven.
- Criminals are the product of arrested development.
- Familiarity is the enemy of admiration.
- There’s nothing more dangerous than a good idea.
- You can lead a horse to Harvard but you can’t make him think.
- The only ass I follow is my own.
- If you believe, it doesn’t have to be true.
- Footprints go unnoticed on a well-worn path.
- You can’t part the waters without making some waves.
- The end of the world goes on forever.
- My heart is in the right place… between my lungs.
- I’ve built my house with the stones you’ve thrown.
- Life is hardest on the headstrong.
- The fastest way to the future is to bypass the past.
- Every silver lining obscures a cloud.
- If I wanted your opinion, I wouldn’t bother having one of my own.
- The best things in life have fleas.
- A ripe apple never toppled the tree.
- Patience is wasted on the lazy.
- Every river is looking for an ocean.
- My thoughts hold my mind together.
- Holding contradictory ideas balances the brain.
- The human heart beats itself to death.
- Nothing is normal until you get used to it.
- You’re only young forever.
- It’s not the journey that weighs you down; it’s the baggage.
- Talent is the enemy of taste. Taste is the enemy of talent.
- The longest journey ends where apathy begins.
- You can’t have your cake and your waistline, too.
- I’ll stay awake while reason sleeps.
- Memories forever remake the past.
- He who laughs last may be the joke.
- He who laughs last didn’t get the joke.
- Question, believe, or lose your mind.
- Two wrongs don’t make a right, but three lefts do.
- You may know you’re going to die, but you won’t know you’re dead.
- You are not a clone.
- We are the new they.
- The lesser of two evils is not the greater good.
- Evolution’s the gift that keeps on giving.
- I may be shallow, but my thoughts are deep.
- Pacifists lose the war; aggressors lose the peace.
- Fall is the season the leaves do dread, because gravity loves the color red.
- Last place gets to stay in the race longer.
- When all else fails, start a band.
- In heaven, no one can hear you dream.
- Behind every great man is a pickpocket.
- Education prepares the next generation for life and debt.
- I pray my obituary is a hoax.
- No brain, no pain.
- You can’t have your kitsch and your good taste, too.
- Madness is the genius’ substitute for stupidity.
- Nothing is true until someone believes.
- No one should possess more than they can hold in their heart.
- If questioning something endangers its existence, extinction is probably in its future.
- The trivial travels faster than the profound.
- Some days you can’t see the forest for the fire.
- You’re guaranteed a past, but not a future.
- It’s always tomorrow on the other side of the world.
- I believe my own imagination.
- Memories forever remake themselves.
- Myths are the unbelievable truth.
- Evolution is a two-way street.
- It’s not the size of the brush; it’s the expanse of the imagination.
- Absinthe makes the mind go wander.
- I’m complicated, not confused.
- Adversity is the mother of contention.
- A stream of consciousness leads to an ocean of revelations.
- Evolution doesn’t work on creationists.
- Holding something sacred stunts its evolution.
- Only the evaporated ascend.
- The rich don’t start revolutions.
- Every teardrop returns to a cloud.
- It’s not God I fear but the woman who bore him.
- You are the dreams of your ancestors.
- The water I breathe would drown the more evolved.
- You can’t remember what you never forgot.
- Some people play hard to get; I play hard to want.
- I don’t love myself; I have other people do that for me.
- Jesus never walked on water, but he was always on thin ice.
- What you believe is without a clue. What I believe is always true.
- There is no outfit that can make me fit in.
- The rules always seem to be in the service of someone else.
- Being a big fish in a small pond is great until you have to poop.
- We are the offspring of extinct imagination.
- Dreaming is easy; I can do it in my sleep.
We Are the New They (2020)
[edit]English, Ron and the Rabbbits. We Are the New They (2020). PoPaganda. Spotify. https://open.spotify.com/album/0ECo51P59WwbFY2iIKZ9F4
- Tomorrow’s the future’s yesterday
Ron English's Fauxlosophy: Volume 2 (2022)
[edit]English, Ron. Ron English's Fauxlosophy: Volume 2 (2022). Kindle Edition, ASIN:B09RH7ZMHB. https://www.amazon.com/Ron-Englishs-Fauxlosophy-2-English-ebook/dp/B09RH7ZMHB/ref=sr_1_2?crid=2FUBHMQ8AUFHK&keywords=fauxlosophy+ron+english&qid=1652366542&sprefix=fauxlosophy+ron+english%2Caps%2C125&sr=8-2
- A man with a bomb has never to beg.
- Everyone matters more than you except to yourself.
- Her beauty is best experienced in the dark.
- He who has not sinned lacks a stone.
- Dodge the draft or dodge the bullets.
- Happiness isn’t having something for yourself but wanting it for everyone.
- Good things come to those with bait.
- Don't let your actions betray your intentions.
- Doing is thinking in the third dimension.
- A full house beats one of a kind.
- A gun in the hand is worth a corpse in the Promised Land.
- Death would be better if it weren’t forever.
- The irreplaceable get stuck where they are.
- Most aliens are expressionists.
- It’s better to be happy than in pursuit of it.
- I believe my best guesses.
- A skeleton in the closet saves on a grave.
- Animals are never naked.
- An army of one answers to none.
- If someone’s face lacks a smile, offer them yours.
- I’m in love with your pretense like you’re in love with mine.
- If it’s good enough for the cosmos, it’s good enough for humankind.
- Anything worth doing can be done by someone else.
- Sometimes you have to do something dangerous to get death's attention.
- Increasing your odds gets you closer to your goal.
- In heaven you get the hang-over before the intoxication.
- I only speak to drown out my thoughts.
- Life is fair. Everyone gets more than they deserve.
- I would talk to myself but I’m not a good listener.
- The few think for the many.
- I was reincarnated as my former self.
- I have an undeveloped photographic memory.
- I could kill two birds if I wasn't so stoned.
- It’s better to get the last laugh than the joke.
- It’s easier to solve problems if you don’t have to live with the solutions.
- In a land of plenty it is better to consume than create.
- In fraud we trust.
- Mad to the marrow.
- If you want to get hit by a car, stand in the road.
- If you got everything you wanted there would be nothing left for anyone else.
- If God had meant man to fly he would have gone a little easier on the gravity.
- I hope my journey to death lasts at least ninety years.
- Those who cannot create consume.
- They wouldn’t criticize you if they didn’t feel threatened..
- Thinking is not doing.
- Heaven is a Christian-free eternity.
- There is nothing more exhilarating than understanding.
- There is no right I would not gladly forgo to expand your power.
- The low road leads to da feet.
- The indoctrinated's different drummer is a metronome.
- The impossible has no past.
- The inevitable only exists through lack of intervention.
- The heart’s desire is expressed in blood.
- The first thing on my to-do list is to make a to-do list.
- The only thing I would do different is more of the same.
- A shadow never sees the sun.
- It takes a different kind of courage to be a coward.
- Our existence is nearly a biological impossibility.
- If the folks back home could see me now, they’d know the surveillance system works.
- Oncoming traffic appears closer in the rearview mirror.
- Only the dead find peace, only the living desire it.
- Memories have their own way with the past.
- Money is the root of all motivation.
- Nothing’s a mistake until you make it.
- One percent intention, ninety nine percent desire.
- The road to hell is littered with ads.
- Out of the clear blue nowhere.
- The opinions of others are articulated by my inner voice.
- My failure is a window for your success.
- Patience grows old.
- The revolution will go unnoticed.
- I only appear selfish to a saint.
- Nobody understands a prostitute better than a politician.
- Being misunderstood is the measure of an artist, being understood is the measure of a man.
- Mirrors reverse life, memories reverse time.
- No is a bigger word than I.
- My parents saved me from nonexistence.
- If listening was as important as speaking, you would have twice as many ears as mouths.
- Mistakes clear the path for success.
- Memories remake the past, dreams remake the future.