Stan Brakhage Quotes

He who closes his eyes sees nothing, even in the full light of day.

To look is one thing, to see is another thing; to see is very difficult, normally; to look is to try to see. I have looked and I hope I have seen.

The hardest thing to see is what is in front of your eyes.

It is a terrible thing to see and have no vision.

Hindsight is good, foresight is better; but second sight is best of all.

The rare moment is not the moment when there is something worth looking at, but the moment when we are capable of seeing.

He who is invisible sees more clearly, hears more clearly, and is better able to read the thoughts of men.

A SEEING eye is better than three hundred blind men's: The eye can distinguish pearls from pebbles.

A prophet is not someone with special visions, just someone blind to most of what others see

He who sees without loving is only straining his eyes in the darkness.

It's you who are telling me; opening my eyes to things I'd looked at so long that I'd ceased to see them.

Seeing the small is called clarity.

You see, but you do not observe.

If you give people more perspective of one object, they start to see it more clearly.

Intelligence is the seeing of what is.

It is the obvious which is so difficult to see most of the time. People say 'It's as plain as the nose on your face.' But how much of the nose on your face can you see, unless someone holds a mirror up to you?

That's why they call you Seer. You see more than most.

What is hardest of all? That which seems most simple: to see with your eyes what is before your eyes.

Our job is not to set things right but to see them right.

Books are as useful to a stupid person as a mirror is useful to a blind person.

I observe the world and the people surrounding me.

All truth, in the long run, is only common sense clarified.

They consider me to have sharp and penetrating vision because I see them through the mesh of a sieve.

There are three classes of people: those who see, those who see when they are shown, those who do not see.

The best vision is insight.