Our society is monstrously disjunctive, at once so efficient in war and so inefficient in caring for the welfare of its members. It is frightening to see people rooting in garbage pails on streets, living in cardboard crates under bridges,… — 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 physical verity. We do truthfully experience our lives differently because our bodies are different. It is in what… — 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 acted. This in no way means that I have done what was right; only what was possible for me. Sometimes I have done what I knew was wrong, and have rationalized. But rationalization is a form… — 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 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 brunt, of accepting and enduring, still seems to me to have a kind of nobility. It is, perhaps, less intelligent, but there is a stubborn selfhood about it that is dear to me. It can be,… — 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 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
