Anne Truitt

Artists have no choice but to express their lives.

— Anne Truitt

A mystery confounds the problem of industry in art. In the last analysis, to work is simply not enough. But we have…

— Anne Truitt

The shape of my work's development becomes a little clearer every time I am forced to articulate it.

— Anne Truitt

January is my favorite month, when the light is plainest, least colored. And I like the feeling of beginnings.

— Anne Truitt

It is ultimately character that underwrites art.

— Anne Truitt

artists often lie behind on the field long after the art combine, the broad-bladed harvester of informed criticism, has mowed, bailed, and…

— Anne Truitt

I've struggled all my life to get maximum meaning in the simplest possible form,

— Anne Truitt

The end of parenthood is implicit in its beginning: separation.

— Anne Truitt

The most demanding part of living a lifetime as an artist is the strict discipline of forcing oneself to work steadfastly along…

— Anne Truitt

The difference between men and women is inalienable. It is not a political fact, subject to cultural definition and redefinition, but a…

— Anne Truitt

Their [artists'] essential effort is to catapult themselves wholly, without holding back one bit, into a course of action without having any…

— Anne Truitt

Artists have no choice but to express their lives. They have only, and that not always, a choice of process. This process…

— Anne Truitt

The art of being officially old seems to lie in cooperative submission.

— Anne Truitt

No one questions the fact that verbal language has to be learned, but the commonplaceness of visual experience betrays art; people tend…

— Anne Truitt

I have no home but me.

— Anne Truitt