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Quotes by 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.'
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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.
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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.
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I’ve always believed film is most close to music of all the other arts.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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How many colors are there in a field of grass to the crawling baby unaware of 'Green'?
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I've always believed film is most close to music of all the other arts.
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What a moth might see from birth to death if black were white and white were black,
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