Stan Brakhage Quotes

Beauty is a question of optics. All sight is illusion.

I have a black pair of suede Jimmy Choos. I've only worn them once to a Sony event. The heels have these arrow plates in a pattern. There's gold, black and white and they're amazing!

Color is everywhere, so everything has changed. I still can't see color, but I can perceive it. I can experience it in a way that allows me to be a part of this reality, which I was excluded from before. Thanks to the eyeborg, I've made a career by combining music and art.

Ivory may not be so white as snow, but the whole Arctic continent does not make ivory black.

... we ought even to hold as a fixed principle that what I see white I believe to be black, if the superior authorities define it to be so.

Black implies white self implies other

What did you see?' he asked then. Nothing,' I told him. 'Because nothing is what you wanted me to see, though the man on the table might disagree.

It's forcing the issue of perception by rendering an image that is just at the edge of perception, which in someway forces you to look more closely and for you to adjust your vision so you can see in the dark.

Things aren't black and white in the world.

It is the mission of the printer to diffuse light and knowledge by a judicious intermingling of black with white.

The relation between what we see and what we know is never settled. Each evening we see the sun set. We know that the earth is turning away from it. Yet the knowledge, the explanation, never quite fits the sight.

As the thought comes to me to exorcise and transform this black with a white drawing, it has already become a surface.. .Now I have lost all fear, and begin to draw on the black surface.

Mortals. Everything is so black and white to you.

Color is the overpowering of black; white – the final victory over black.

I like the black and white movies on AMC.

... if a man really and truly believed that black was white, you might advise him to see an oculist, but you mustn't call him a liar.

One can take a neon tube and simply paint it black on the front. So it would read as a black letter or a line, but it would also read as neon because there would be light coming from behind that black letter.

In the dark, all cats are black.

Everytime I look at a zebra, I can't figure out whether it's black with white stripes or white with black stripes, and that frustrates me.

It is the eye which makes the horizon.

There is black. There is white. Gray is a cowardly excuse to mix our wants with our needs.

I make a composition with a white and a black, and make adjustments when the white has become a paper and the black a shadow.

Some days I feel like a piano: kind of short, always in black & white, always expected to produce music.

You can't be conscious unless you have variable receptors... When people say the way I see the world is the way it is - that's ridiculous. We can only see it depending on the quality of our receptors and background.