I never decided at all to be an artist; being an artist seems to have happened to me. — Anne Truitt Copy Share Image
Art comes into the highest part of the mind, with which we can know the presence of God. — Anne Truitt Copy Share Image
Art comes into the highest part of the mind, that with which we can know the presence of God. — Anne Truitt Copy Share Image
the capacity to work feeds on itself and has its own course of development. This is what artists have going for them. — Anne Truitt Copy Share Image
A mystery confounds the problem of industry in art. In the last analysis, to work is simply not enough. But we have… — Anne Truitt Copy Share Image
“I refused, and still refuse, the inflated definition of artists as special people with special prerogatives and special excuses.” — Anne Truitt Copy Share Image
No one questions the fact that verbal language has to be learned, but the commonplaceness of visual experience betrays art; people tend… — Anne Truitt Copy Share Image
The most demanding part of living a lifetime as an artist is the strict discipline of forcing oneself to work steadfastly along… — Anne Truitt Copy Share Image
artists often lie behind on the field long after the art combine, the broad-bladed harvester of informed criticism, has mowed, bailed, and… — Anne Truitt Copy Share Image
There is an appalling amount of mechanical work in the artist's life ... Talent is mysterious, but the qualities that guard, foster,… — Anne Truitt Copy Share Image
Their [artists'] essential effort is to catapult themselves wholly, without holding back one bit, into a course of action without having any… — Anne Truitt Copy Share Image
Artists have no choice but to express their lives. They have only, and that not always, a choice of process. This process… — Anne Truitt Copy Share Image
Our society is monstrously disjunctive, at once so efficient in war and so inefficient in caring for the welfare of its members. It is… — Anne Truitt Copy Share
“By keeping on being what we most intimately are, we can continually redefine ourselves so that we become what we have not been able… — Anne Truitt Copy Share
In the range of my character at any given moment, I have acted in the only way it seemed to me I could have… — Anne Truitt Copy Share
the capacity to work feeds on itself and has its own course of development. This is what artists have going for them. — Anne Truitt Copy Share
“...it occurred to me that I could use the energy I had been putting into endurance to change my life. Yet the concept of… — Anne Truitt Copy Share
There is an appalling amount of mechanical work in the artist's life ... Talent is mysterious, but the qualities that guard, foster, and direct… — Anne Truitt Copy Share
I come to the point of using steel, and simply cannot. It's like the marriage proposal of a perfectly eligible man who just isn't… — Anne Truitt Copy Share
Art comes into the highest part of the mind, with which we can know the presence of God. — Anne Truitt Copy Share
There's a small still center into which conception can arrive. And when it arrives, you make it welcome with your experience. — Anne Truitt Copy Share
I have slowly come to realize that a family is composed of people who are teaching one another. — Anne Truitt Copy Share
The finest teaching touches in a student a spring neither teacher nor student could possibly have preconceived. — Anne Truitt Copy Share
I worked in between carpools and buying food and cooking and whatever else I had to do. I lived an outside life, but really… — Anne Truitt Copy Share
When I speak now, my experience in art wells up so articulately that I am surprised even while I am talking. I move around… — Anne Truitt Copy Share
![“Their [artists'] essential effort is to catapult themselves wholly, without holding back one bit, into a course of action without having any idea where they will end up. They are like riders who gallop into the night, eagerly leaning on their horse's neck, peering into a blinding rain. And they…” quote by Anne Truitt](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/d6b/anne-truitt-16251_action_their-artists-essential-effort-is-to-cat_2730447.jpg)
