“The hallmark of a decision in line with one’s inner development is a feeling of having laid down a burden and picked up a more natural responsibility.” — 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
The finest teaching touches in a student a spring neither teacher nor student could possibly have preconceived. — Anne Truitt Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
