Buying Quote by Anne Truitt

the more visible my work became, the less visible I grew to myself.

— Anne Truitt

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

“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

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

the capacity to work feeds on itself and has its own course of development. This is what artists have going for them.

— Anne Truitt

Generosity is often the stalking horse of control.

— Anne Truitt

“...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

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

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

Art comes into the highest part of the mind, with which we can know the presence of God.

— Anne Truitt

There's a small still center into which conception can arrive. And when it arrives, you make it welcome with your experience.

— Anne Truitt

I have slowly come to realize that a family is composed of people who are teaching one another.

— Anne Truitt