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Stan Brakhage Quotes

Stan Brakhage Quotes.

Poetry is a totally different art than film.
Stan Brakhage
The Hollywood movies are more like novels, and the kinds of films I make are more like poems.
Stan Brakhage
The capacity to be intrinsic and vulgar is American.
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 can’t see.
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 and color) so that when the drama-discovery is actually made, it acts as a deliberate anti-climax of aesthetic perfection.
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 the ‘beginning was the word.’
Stan Brakhage
Art is a sense of magic.
Stan Brakhage
What a moth might see from birth to death if black were white and white were black.
Stan Brakhage
I love being objected to. It worries me, but I love being objected to.
Stan Brakhage
No one is out to get you. It’s just that… people are monkeys.
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 the ‘beginning was the word.
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 of everything but which must know each object encountered in life through an adventure of perception.
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 and erase it if they don’t like it and so on.
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 next door, coming over to borrow your ear and a cup of sugar every morning-Good God!
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 beautiful than ‘to look forward.
Stan Brakhage
We have the notion that we exist but we have no way to prove it. ‘I am’ is the closest foundation we can get.
Stan Brakhage