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Art is a sense of magic.
Stan Brakhage / Filmmaker
Art
Art Is
Magic
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There are a lot of movies made for nobody.
Stan Brakhage / Filmmaker
Movie
Made
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Poetry is a totally different art than film.
Stan Brakhage / Filmmaker
Art
Different
Film
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The capacity to be intrinsic and vulgar is American.
Stan Brakhage / Filmmaker
Capacity
Vulgar
Intrinsic
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Novelists and poets have existed side by side forever.
Stan Brakhage / Filmmaker
Forever
Novelists
Sides
Existed
Poets
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No one is out to get you. It's just that... people are monkeys.
Stan Brakhage / Filmmaker
Monkeys
People Just Get
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I love being objected to. It worries me, but I love being objected to.
Stan Brakhage / Filmmaker
Love Is
Worry
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I've always believed film is most close to music of all the other arts.
Stan Brakhage / Filmmaker
Art
Always Believe
Film
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What a moth might see from birth to death if black were white and white were black.
Stan Brakhage / Filmmaker
Black
Might
White
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How many colors are there in a field of grass to the crawling baby unaware of 'Green'?
Stan Brakhage / Filmmaker
Baby
Color
Green
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The Hollywood movies are more like novels, and the kinds of films I make are more like poems.
Stan Brakhage / Filmmaker
Film
Hollywood
Hollywood Movies
Kind
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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.
Stan Brakhage / Filmmaker
Closest
Foundation
Notion
Prove
Prove It
Way
Exist
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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.
Stan Brakhage / Filmmaker
People
Simple
Visionaries
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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 / Filmmaker
Crawling
Eye
Grass
Green
Colours
Field
Rainbows
Unaware
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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.
Stan Brakhage / Filmmaker
Beautiful
Beautiful Words
Looks
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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.
Stan Brakhage / Filmmaker
Running
Blank
Erase
Pages
Video
Blank Page
Easily
Maker
Page
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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.
Stan Brakhage / Filmmaker
Alive
Movement
World
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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.'
Stan Brakhage / Filmmaker
Alive
Colour
Endless
Imagine
Movement
Objects
Variety
Beginning
Incomprehensible
Word
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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!
Stan Brakhage / Filmmaker
Morning
Artist
Thinking
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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.
Stan Brakhage / Filmmaker
Adventure
Eye
Imagine
Logic
Perception
Perspective
Laws
Does
Through
Respond
Man-Made
Each
Encountered
Must
Object
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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.
Stan Brakhage / Filmmaker
Black And White
Discovery
Drama
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Peter Kubelka is the perfectionist of the film medium; and, as I honor that quality above all others at this time finding such a lack of it now elsewhere, I would simply like to say: Peter Kubelka is the world's greatest filmmaker - which is to say, simply: see his films!...by all means/above all else...etcetera.
Stan Brakhage / Filmmaker
Quality
Honor
Mean
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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.
Stan Brakhage / Filmmaker
Art
Photography
Struggle
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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.
Stan Brakhage / Filmmaker
Opportunity
Average
Doctors
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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. 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?
Stan Brakhage / Filmmaker
Adventure
Baby
Eye
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