brakhage

No artist has ever been permitted to comprehend the work he creates: only those who do cre-
atively attend it are permitted to second-guess its actual being . . . . make game of it . . . . hunt down the beasts of it in lairs of their own angelic orders. Only those who exert as much creative energy apprehending the work of art as it took to make it, can break the traps of form that whirl an almost impenetrable cocoon of habit-sense around revelation.

STAN BRAKHAGE on George Melies
-THE BRAKHAGE LECTURES