“I refused, and still refuse, the inflated definition of artists as special people with special prerogatives and special excuses.” — 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
