The Hollywood movies are more like novels, and the kinds of films I make are more like poems. — Stan Brakhage Copy Share Image
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 of everything but which must know each object encountered in life through an adventure of perception. How many colors are there in a field of grass to the crawling baby unaware of ‘Green?’ How many rainbows… — Stan Brakhage Copy Share
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… — Stan Brakhage Copy Share Image
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… — Stan Brakhage Copy Share Image
How many colors are there in a field of grass to the crawling baby unaware of 'Green'? — Stan Brakhage Copy Share Image
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 next door, coming over to borrow your ear and a cup of sugar every morning-Good God! — Stan Brakhage Copy Share
Imagine a world alive with incomprehensible objects, and shimmering with an endless variety of movement and innumerable gradations of colour. Imagine a world before… — Stan Brakhage Copy Share Image
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… — Stan Brakhage Copy Share Image
I've always believed film is most close to music of all the other arts. — Stan Brakhage Copy Share Image
I was struggling against the flypaper of other arts harnessing film to their own usages, which means essentially as a recording device or within… — Stan Brakhage Copy Share Image
What a moth might see from birth to death if black were white and white were black, — Stan Brakhage Copy Share Image
