“The room is darkened so that a ray of light can pierce it, enchant it, and unfold an entire world onto a two-dimensional white screen. That’s why, for me, darkness is neither unpleasant nor gloomy. On the contrary, I associate it with a condensed form of life. Immense, like the night. Intimate, like the pupil of an eye.”
(Anouk de Clercq quoted in Vicente Monroy’s A Brief History of Darkness)

“(...) The artist must be given more rope than necessary. He often hangs himself to experience, although this creature has a stiff neck. Give him time! Perhaps he is more aware of time than any type of individual. He is an explorer of his own dualities.(...)”
Stan Brakhage. Make room for the artist.

"In nature, every flower, every single petal, is capable of marveling us. It is not strange that we express the pleasure that its mere color gives us. The spirits of nature speak to us through singular colors, just as the spirits of the heavens speak to us through the sound of various musical instruments. We can hardly express how much we are moved and affected by each color, for the colors themselves speak to us in sweet tones.”
W. Wackenroder, “Die Farben”.

"'By Brakhage’ should be understood to mean ‘by way of Stan and Jane Brakhage,’ as it does in all my films since marriage. It is coming to mean: ‘By way of Stan and Jane and all the children Brakhage», because all the discoveries which used to pass only thru the instrument of myself are coming to pass thru the sensibilities of those I love." - Metaphors on Vision, by Stan Brakhage

- APRICITY Nathaniel Dorsky
- DOG STAR MAN: PRELUDE Stan Brakhage
- JANE, LOOKING, Amy Halpern
- JANE, Stan Brakhage