"Imagine a world alive with incomprehensible objects, and shimmering with an endless variety of movement and innumerable gradations of colour. Imagine a world before the 'beginning was the word."

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Source : Stan Brakhage, Arts Council of Great Britain (1980). “Stan Brakhage: an American independent film-maker”

Stan Brakhage

#Alive Quotes #World Quotes #Movement Quotes

“I didn't want to go out and change anything. I just wanted to make the music that was part of my background, which was rock and blues and hip-hop.”
“I try not to dwell on big mistakes but to move on when I make a mistake. I make mistakes most of the times and that's part of the risk profile being an entrepreneur. I guess one big mistake I did was not to start my own company earlier. I spent nine years working for others before starting Kazaa in 2000.”
“There is and always has been for me a peculiar need to write. This is very different from wanting to be a writer. To be a writer always seemed something so far removed from my talents and abilities and imaginings that it didn't afflict me at all as a notion when I was young. But I was always conscious that I wanted to write.”
“There are about as many ways to be dead as there are to be alive. People linger in different ways, both publicly and privately.”
“We older women in Europe are lucky not to be shoved away in a drawer.”
“You can never be overdressed or overeducated.”
“People think you can't be clever if you have breasts.”
“My commodity as a writer, whatever I'm writing about, is me. And your commodity is you. Don't alter your voice to fit the subject. Develop one voice that readers will recognize when they hear it on the page, a voice that's enjoyable not only in its musical line but in its avoidance of sounds that would cheapen its tone: breeziness and condescension and clichÃ©s.”

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