Stan Brakhage Quotes

The whole world, as we experience it visually, comes to us through the mystic realm of color.

There is no blue without yellow and without orange.

Light in Nature creates the movement of colors.

Black is not a color.

Red's my favorite color.

Color is a matter of taste and of sensitivity.

Color is an intense experience on its own.

Color is so intuitive.

But what is of great importance to me is observation of the movement of colors.

Everybody thinks they know what art should be. But very few of them have the sense that is necessary to experience painting, that is the sense of sight, that sees colors and forms as living reality in the picture.

Color is a big part of what I do. It's like music. There are only so many notes in the scale, but there are endless permutations; there's no limit to the number. Color on the walls or furniture can reflect back and distort the reality of the true colors of lipsticks and eye shadow.

A colour is a physical object as soon as we consider its dependence, for instance, upon its luminous source, upon other colours, upon temperatures, upon spaces, and so forth.

In nature, light creates the color. In the picture, color creates the light.

There are people who don't respond to color. That's what painting is. It's color.

For an Impressionist to paint from nature is not to paint the subject, but to realize sensations.

When through the power of sight we see white, that which comes about in the soul through the act of seeing is a modification. And on the basis of this modification, we are able to say that the white which is affecting us exists.

There are not more than five primary colours, yet in combination they produce more hues than can ever been seen.

Light is a thing that cannot be reproduced, but must be represented by something else - by color.

Color cannot stand alone.

Light is therefore color.

How many colors are there in a field of grass to the crawling baby unaware of 'Green'?

I see all of them. All the colors.

I want to know one thing, what is color?

My goal is to formulate a new color theory based on the full spectrum of visible light.

Folded eyes see brighter colors than the open ever do.