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
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
Novelists and poets have existed side by side forever.

Stan Brakhage
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
The Hollywood movies are more like novels, and the kinds of films I make are more like poems.

Stan Brakhage
The capacity to be intrinsic and vulgar is American.