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 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 BrakhageAfter 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