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Love ... is the honoring of others in a way that grants them the grace of their own autonomy and allows mutual discovery.
Anne Truitt
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Anne Truitt
Age: 83 †
Born: 1921
Born: March 16
Died: 2004
Died: December 23
Artist
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Sculptor
Baltimore
Maryland
Anne Dean Truitt
Anne Dean
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The shape of my work's development becomes a little clearer every time I am forced to articulate it.
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Art comes into the highest part of the mind, that with which we can know the presence of God.
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The art of being officially old seems to lie in cooperative submission.
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the more visible my work became, the less visible I grew to myself.
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There's a small still center into which conception can arrive. And when it arrives, you make it welcome with your experience.
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I worked in between carpools and buying food and cooking and whatever else I had to do. I lived an outside life, but really I was living an inside life.
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I have been flooded with color on the inside, drab on the outside.
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A mystery confounds the problem of industry in art. In the last analysis, to work is simply not enough. But we have to act as if it were, leaving reward aside.
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