Poetry is a totally different art than film.
— 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
How many colors are there in a field of grass to the crawling baby unaware of "green"?
— Stan Brakhage
There are a lot of movies made for nobody. — Stan Brakhage
The Hollywood movies are more like novels, and the kinds of films I make are more like poems. — 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
Novelists and poets have existed side by side forever. — 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
No one is out to get you. It's just that ... people are monkeys. — Stan Brakhage
Art is a sense of magic. — Stan Brakhage
The capacity to be intrinsic and vulgar is American. — 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
