Stan Brakhage
Stan Brakhage
James Stanley Brakhage, better known as Stan Brakhage, was an American non-narrative filmmaker. He is considered to be one of the most important figures in 20th-century experimental film...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionDirector
Date of Birth14 January 1933
CountryUnited States of America
morning thinking artist
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!
white black might
What a moth might see from birth to death if black were white and white were black,
way foundation prove-it
We have the notion that we exist but we have no way to prove it. 'I am' is the closest foundation we can get.
art film always-believe
I've always believed film is most close to music of all the other arts.
baby adventure eye
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. How many colors are there in a field of grass to the crawling baby unaware of ‘Green?’ How many rainbows can light create for the untutored eye?
baby color green
How many colors are there in a field of grass to the crawling baby unaware of 'Green'?
movement alive world
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.
hollywood kind film
The Hollywood movies are more like novels, and the kinds of films I make are more like poems.
art magic art-is
Art is a sense of magic.