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…

— Stan Brakhage

Novelists and poets have existed side by side forever.

— 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…

— 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…

— Stan Brakhage

How many colors are there in a field of grass to the crawling baby unaware of 'Green'?

— 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…

— Stan Brakhage

Imagine a world alive with incomprehensible objects, and shimmering with an endless variety of movement and innumerable gradations of colour. Imagine a…

— Stan Brakhage

Poetry is a totally different art than film.

— 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…

— Stan Brakhage

I've always believed film is most close to music of all the other arts.

— Stan Brakhage

I was struggling against the flypaper of other arts harnessing film to their own usages, which means essentially as a recording device…

— Stan Brakhage

What a moth might see from birth to death if black were white and white were black,

— Stan Brakhage

How many colours are there in a field of grass to the crawling baby unaware of 'green'? How many rainbows can light…

— Stan Brakhage

Art is a sense of magic.

— 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…

— Stan Brakhage

The capacity to be intrinsic and vulgar is American.

— Stan Brakhage

There are a lot of movies made for nobody.

— Stan Brakhage

No one is out to get you. It's just that... people are monkeys.

— Stan Brakhage

We have the notion that we exist but we have no way to prove it. 'I am' is the closest foundation we…

— Stan Brakhage

After wishing for years to be given-the-opportunity of filming some of the more 'mystical' occupations of our Times - some of the…

— 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…

— Stan Brakhage

The Hollywood movies are more like novels, and the kinds of films I make are more like poems.

— Stan Brakhage

I love being objected to. It worries me, but I love being objected to.

— Stan Brakhage

Peter Kubelka is the perfectionist of the film medium; and, as I honor that quality above all others at this time finding…

— Stan Brakhage

A film fable so structured that all alchemical searchings are clearly filmwise (gold being discovered cinematically in each sequence ot mixed black-and-white…

— Stan Brakhage