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title: "3 Crawling Quotes By Stan Brakhage"
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> [Imagine an eye unruled by man-made laws of perspective, an eye unprejudiced by compositional logic, an eye which does not respond to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stan-brakhage/imagine-an-eye-unruled-by-man-made-laws-of-perspective-an-eye/)

[Stan Brakhage](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stan-brakhage/)

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> [How many colors are there in a field of grass to the crawling baby unaware of 'Green'?](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stan-brakhage/how-many-colors-are-there-in-a-field-of-grass-to-the-crawling-baby/)

[Stan Brakhage](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stan-brakhage/)

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> [How many colours are there in a field of grass to the crawling baby unaware of 'green'? How many rainbows can light…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stan-brakhage/how-many-colours-are-there-in-a-field-of-grass-to-the-crawling-baby/)

[Stan Brakhage](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stan-brakhage/)

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## More by Stan Brakhage

> [Imagine an eye unruled by man-made laws of perspective, an eye unprejudiced by compositional logic, an eye which does not respond to the name…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stan-brakhage/imagine-an-eye-unruled-by-man-made-laws-of-perspective-an-eye/)

[Stan Brakhage](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stan-brakhage/)

> [Novelists and poets have existed side by side forever.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stan-brakhage/novelists-and-poets-have-existed-side-by-side-forever/)

[Stan Brakhage](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stan-brakhage/)

> [It is just seeing-it is a very simple word-and to be a visionary is to be a seer. The problem is that most people…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stan-brakhage/it-is-just-seeing-it-is-a-very-simple-word-and-to-be-a-visionary-is/)

[Stan Brakhage](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stan-brakhage/)

> [If only, then, I had been more living out of the present--such a beautiful word...present. The sense of it being, now to me, more…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stan-brakhage/if-only-then-i-had-been-more-living-out-of-the-present-such-a/)

[Stan Brakhage](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stan-brakhage/)

> [How many colors are there in a field of grass to the crawling baby unaware of 'Green'?](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stan-brakhage/how-many-colors-are-there-in-a-field-of-grass-to-the-crawling-baby/)

[Stan Brakhage](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stan-brakhage/)

> [Artists are mostly shits of the worst order. You wouldn't want one living next door to you. Think about it: Vincent Van Gogh living…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stan-brakhage/artists-are-mostly-shits-of-the-worst-order-you-wouldn-t-want-one/)

[Stan Brakhage](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stan-brakhage/)

> [Imagine a world alive with incomprehensible objects, and shimmering with an endless variety of movement and innumerable gradations of colour. Imagine a world before…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stan-brakhage/imagine-a-world-alive-with-incomprehensible-objects-and-shimmering/)

[Stan Brakhage](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stan-brakhage/)

> [Poetry is a totally different art than film.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stan-brakhage/poetry-is-a-totally-different-art-than-film/)

[Stan Brakhage](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stan-brakhage/)

> [Imagine an eye unruled by man-made laws of perspective, an eye unprejudiced by compositional logic, an eye which does not respond to the name…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stan-brakhage/imagine-an-eye-unruled-by-man-made-laws-of-perspective-an-eye-2/)

[Stan Brakhage](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stan-brakhage/)

> [I've always believed film is most close to music of all the other arts.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stan-brakhage/i-ve-always-believed-film-is-most-close-to-music-of-all-the-other-arts/)

[Stan Brakhage](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stan-brakhage/)

> [I was struggling against the flypaper of other arts harnessing film to their own usages, which means essentially as a recording device or within…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stan-brakhage/i-was-struggling-against-the-flypaper-of-other-arts-harnessing-film/)

[Stan Brakhage](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stan-brakhage/)

> [What a moth might see from birth to death if black were white and white were black,](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stan-brakhage/what-a-moth-might-see-from-birth-to-death-if-black-were-white-and/)

[Stan Brakhage](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stan-brakhage/)

> [How many colours are there in a field of grass to the crawling baby unaware of 'green'? How many rainbows can light create for…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stan-brakhage/how-many-colours-are-there-in-a-field-of-grass-to-the-crawling-baby/)

[Stan Brakhage](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stan-brakhage/)

> [Art is a sense of magic.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stan-brakhage/art-is-a-sense-of-magic/)

[Stan Brakhage](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stan-brakhage/)

> [The video maker doesn't easily face a blank page. Because the videomaker can run it either any way, this way or the other way…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stan-brakhage/the-video-maker-doesn-t-easily-face-a-blank-page-because-the/)

[Stan Brakhage](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stan-brakhage/)

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