Stan Brakhage Quotes
Quotations and aphorisms by Stan Brakhage:
How many colours are there in a field of grass to the crawling baby unaware of 'green'? How many rainbows can light create for the untutored eye?
~Stan Brakhage
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Novelists and poets have existed side by side forever.
~Stan Brakhage
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The capacity to be intrinsic and vulgar is American.
~Stan Brakhage
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Art is a sense of magic.
~Stan Brakhage
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I love being objected to. It worries me, but I love being objected to.
~Stan Brakhage
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There are a lot of movies made for nobody.
~Stan Brakhage
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The Hollywood movies are more like novels, and the kinds of films I make are more like poems.
~Stan Brakhage
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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
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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
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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
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No one is out to get you. It's just that... people are monkeys.
~Stan Brakhage
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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
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Poetry is a totally different art than film.
~Stan Brakhage
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