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artists often lie behind on the field long after the art combine, the broad-bladed harvester of informed criticism, has mowed, bailed, and stored the crop.
Anne Truitt
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Anne Truitt
Age: 83 †
Born: 1921
Born: March 16
Died: 2004
Died: December 23
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Their [artists'] essential effort is to catapult themselves wholly, without holding back one bit, into a course of action without having any idea where they will end up. They are like riders who gallop into the night, eagerly leaning on their horse's neck, peering into a blinding rain. And they have to do it over and over again.
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When I speak now, my experience in art wells up so articulately that I am surprised even while I am talking. I move around a podium as easily as if it were my living room and although I am keyed up I am not anxious. I feel as if I were doing what I should be doing - the feeling I have when intent in my studio.
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I never decided at all to be an artist being an artist seems to have happened to me.
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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 loveable. It is wood I love.
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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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the knowledge of personal failure ... is the invaluable predicate of all honest compassion.
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The end of parenthood is implicit in its beginning: separation.
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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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The finest teaching touches in a student a spring neither teacher nor student could possibly have preconceived.
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It is ultimately character that underwrites art.
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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.
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There is an appalling amount of mechanical work in the artist's life ... Talent is mysterious, but the qualities that guard, foster, and direct it are not unlike those of a good quartermaster.
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the capacity to work feeds on itself and has its own course of development. This is what artists have going for them.
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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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The most demanding part of living a lifetime as an artist is the strict discipline of forcing oneself to work steadfastly along the nerve of one's own intimate sensitivity.
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the more visible my work became, the less visible I grew to myself.
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I had forgotten what sleep is like - a kingdom all its own.
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Humility is the daughter of truth.
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The art of being officially old seems to lie in cooperative submission.
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Artists have no choice but to express their lives. They have only, and that not always, a choice of process. This process does not change the essential content of their work in art, which can only be their life.
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