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 can light create for the untutored eye?
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 … - 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 …
- Stan Brakhage
Poetry is a totally different art than film. - Stan Brakhage
Poetry is a totally different art than film.
The Hollywood movies are more like novels, and the kinds of films I make are more like poems. - Stan Brakhage
The Hollywood movies are more like novels, and the kinds of films I make are more like poems.
I've always believed film is most close to music of all the other arts. - Stan Brakhage
I've always believed film is most close to music of all the other arts.
What a moth might see from birth to death if black were white and white were black. - Stan Brakhage
What a moth might see from birth to death if black were white and white were black.
There are a lot of movies made for nobody. - Stan Brakhage
There are a lot of movies made for nobody.
I was struggling against the flypaper of other arts harnessing film to their own usages, which means essentially as a recording device or within the … - 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 the …
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… - 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…
Imagine a world alive with incomprehensible objects, and shimmering with an endless variety of movement and innumerable gradations of colour. Imagine… - Stan Brakhage
Imagine a world alive with incomprehensible objects, and shimmering with an endless variety of movement and innumerable gradations of colour. Imagine…
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