"The faith I was born into formed me."

-- Huston Smith

“I hate violence. That has never prevented me from using it in my films.”

Source : Samuel Fuller, Christa Fuller, Jerome Rudes (2002). “A Third Face: My Tale of Writing, Fighting and Filmmaking”, Knopf
“My eyes are vague blue, like the sky, and change all the time; they are indiscriminate but fleeting, entirely specific and disloyal, so that no one trusts me. I am always looking away. Or again at something after it has given me up.”
“At first, I felt proud when someone said 'Your work looks like a man did it.' Then I realized that was stupid”
“Just as science is more immediate and exciting than the history of science, so is insight more compelling than a history of insight.”
“I want to go to Australia so bad, do comedy there, and see the people there. It's a great country. I have friends that are Australian that have told me all about it. I want to do comedy there.”
“When I first made a grid I happened to be thinking of the innocence of trees and then this grid came into my mind and I thought it represented innocence, and I still do, and so I painted it and then I was satisfied. I thought, this is my vision.”

Source : "Agnes Martin: the artist mystic who disappeared into the desert" by Olivia Laing, www.theguardian.com. May 22, 2015.
“My own self-consciousness cries out to me coldly: how does one love zero?”
“This, said Damerel wrathfully, is the second time you have walked in just as I am about to propose to your sister!”

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