“By keeping on being what we most intimately are, we can continually redefine ourselves so that we become what we have not… — 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
“...it occurred to me that I could use the energy I had been putting into endurance to change my life. Yet the… — 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
Art comes into the highest part of the mind, with which we can know the presence of God. — Anne Truitt Copy Share Image
When I speak now, my experience in art wells up so articulately that I am surprised even while I am talking. I… — 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
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, that with which we can know the presence of God. — 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
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
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
The difference between men and women is inalienable. It is not a political fact, subject to cultural definition and redefinition, but a… — 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
The art of being officially old seems to lie in cooperative submission. — 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
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 Image
“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 Image
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 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
“...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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
Art comes into the highest part of the mind, with which we can know the presence of God. — Anne Truitt Copy Share Image
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 Image
I have slowly come to realize that a family is composed of people who are teaching one another. — Anne Truitt Copy Share Image
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