Closest Quote 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…

— 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 most people…

— 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…

— 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 Gogh living…

— 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…

— 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 the name…

— 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 or within…

— Stan Brakhage

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

— Stan Brakhage