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 BrakhageHow many colors are there in a field of grass to the crawling baby unaware of 'Green'?
Stan BrakhageThe 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 BrakhageI 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