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.…

— Anne Truitt

“By keeping on being what we most intimately are, we can continually redefine ourselves so that we become what we have not…

— Anne Truitt

In the range of my character at any given moment, I have acted in the only way it seemed to me I…

— 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…

— Anne Truitt

There is an appalling amount of mechanical work in the artist's life ... Talent is mysterious, but the qualities that guard, foster,…

— 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…

— 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

The finest teaching touches in a student a spring neither teacher nor student could possibly have preconceived.

— Anne Truitt

I worked in between carpools and buying food and cooking and whatever else I had to do. I lived an outside life,…

— Anne Truitt

When I speak now, my experience in art wells up so articulately that I am surprised even while I am talking. I…

— Anne Truitt

I have been flooded with color on the inside, drab on the outside.

— Anne Truitt

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

— Anne Truitt

“The hallmark of a decision in line with one’s inner development is a feeling of having laid down a burden and picked…

— Anne Truitt

I had forgotten what sleep is like - a kingdom all its own.

— Anne Truitt

Humility is the daughter of truth.

— Anne Truitt

I never decided at all to be an artist; being an artist seems to have happened to me.

— Anne Truitt

Love ... is the honoring of others in a way that grants them the grace of their own autonomy and allows mutual discovery.

— Anne Truitt

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

— Anne Truitt

the knowledge of personal failure ... is the invaluable predicate of all honest compassion.

— Anne Truitt

“We tend to mix genders when we arrange ourselves around a table for meetings. A sort of accommodation is made by the…

— Anne Truitt