Stan Brakhage Quotes

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• Art is a sense of magic.
• 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…
• What a moth might see from birth to death if black were white and white were black,
• How many colors are there in a field of grass to the crawling baby unaware of 'Green'?
• After wishing for years to be given-the-opportunity of filming some of the more 'mystical' occupations of our Times - some of the more obscure Public…
• The capacity to be intrinsic and vulgar is American.
• 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 can't…
• 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 beautiful…
• The Hollywood movies are more like novels, and the kinds of films I make are more like poems.
• I love being objected to. It worries me, but I love being objected to.
• Novelists and poets have existed side by side forever.
• Poetry is a totally different art than film.
• There are a lot of movies made for nobody.
• We have the notion that we exist but we have no way to prove it. 'I am' is the closest foundation we can get.
• Imagine a world alive with incomprehensible objects, and shimmering with an endless variety of movement and innumerable gradations of colour. Imagine a world before the…
• 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 and…
• 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…
• No one is out to get you. It's just that... people are monkeys.

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