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American
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Director
January 14
, 1933 -
March 9
, 2003
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
Life
Perspective
Adventure
Name
The Hollywood movies are more like novels, and the kinds of films I make are more like poems.
Stan Brakhage
Movies
More
Like
Make
The capacity to be intrinsic and vulgar is American.
Stan Brakhage
American
Capacity
Vulgar
Intrinsic
Art is a sense of magic.
Stan Brakhage
Art
Magic
Sense
There are a lot of movies made for nobody.
Stan Brakhage
Nobody
Movies
Made
Lot
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
I Am
Way
Foundation
Prove
I love being objected to. It worries me, but I love being objected to.
Stan Brakhage
Love
Me
Being
Worries
No one is out to get you. It's just that... people are monkeys.
Stan Brakhage
You
People
Just
Get
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
World
Beginning
Alive
Colour
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
Light
Green
Baby
Eye
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
Face
Way
Like
Run
Poetry is a totally different art than film.
Stan Brakhage
Art
Poetry
Film
Different
Novelists and poets have existed side by side forever.
Stan Brakhage
Forever
Side
Poets
Novelists
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