Quotes by Stan Brakhage

Stan Brakhage

A film fable so structured that all alchemical searchings are clearly filmwise (gold being discovered cinematically in each sequence ot mixed black-and-white and color) so that when the drama-discovery is actually made, it acts as a deliberate anti-climax of aesthetic perfection.

Black And White

Discovery

Drama

After wishing for years to be given-the-opportunity of filming some of the more ‘mystical’ occupations of our Times – some of the more obscure Public Figures which the average imagination turns into ‘bogeymen’… viz.: Policemen, Doctors, Soldiers, Politicians, etc.: – I was at last permitted to ride in a Pittsburgh police car, camera in hand, the final several days of September 1970.

Average

Doctors

Opportunity

Art is a sense of magic.

Art

Art Is

Magic

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 over to borrow your ear and a cup of sugar every morning-Good God!

Artist

Morning

Thinking

How many colors are there in a field of grass to the crawling baby unaware of ‘Green’?

Baby

Color

Green

I love being objected to. It worries me, but I love being objected to.

Love Is

Worry

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 long historical trap of picture – by which I mean a collection of nameable shapes within a frame. I don’t even think still photography, with few exceptions, has made any significant attempt to free itself from that.

Art

Photography

Struggle

I’ve always believed film is most close to music of all the other arts.

Always Believe

Art

Film

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 look forward.

Beautiful

Beautiful Words

Looks

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.

Alive

Movement

World

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Alive

Always Believe

Art

Art Is

Artist

Average

Baby

Beautiful

Beautiful Words

Black

Black And White

Capacity

Color

Different

Discovery

Doctors

Drama

Eye

Film

Forever

Foundation

Green

Hollywood

Honor

Kind

Looks

Love Is

Made

Magic

Mean

Might

Morning

Movement

Movie

Novelists

Opportunity

Pages

People

Photography

Prove It

Quality

Running

Sides

Simple

Struggle

Thinking

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Quotes by Stan Brakhage

Stan Brakhage

A film fable so structured that all alchemical searchings are clearly filmwise (gold being discovered cinematically in each sequence ot mixed black-and-white and color) so that when the drama-discovery is actually made, it acts as a deliberate anti-climax of aesthetic perfection.

Art is a sense of magic.

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 over to borrow your ear and a cup of sugar every morning-Good God!

How many colors are there in a field of grass to the crawling baby unaware of ‘Green’?

I love being objected to. It worries me, but I love being objected to.

I’ve always believed film is most close to music of all the other arts.

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 look forward.

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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