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

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

- 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 the …

- 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…

- Stan Brakhage

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

- Stan Brakhage

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

- Stan Brakhage

There are a lot of movies made for nobody.

- Stan Brakhage