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It is ultimately character that underwrites art.
Anne Truitt
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Anne Truitt
Age: 83 †
Born: 1921
Born: March 16
Died: 2004
Died: December 23
Artist
Drawer
Painter
Sculptor
Baltimore
Maryland
Anne Dean Truitt
Anne Dean
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More quotes by Anne Truitt
Artists have no choice but to express their lives.
Anne Truitt
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.
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
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
January is my favorite month, when the light is plainest, least colored. And I like the feeling of beginnings.
Anne Truitt
No one questions the fact that verbal language has to be learned, but the commonplaceness of visual experience betrays art people tend to assume that, because they can see, they can see art.
Anne Truitt
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.
Anne Truitt
Art comes into the highest part of the mind, that with which we can know the presence of God.
Anne Truitt
Generosity is often the stalking horse of control.
Anne Truitt
I have been flooded with color on the inside, drab on the outside.
Anne Truitt
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.
Anne Truitt
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.
Anne Truitt
I have slowly come to realize that a family is composed of people who are teaching one another.
Anne Truitt
I never decided at all to be an artist being an artist seems to have happened to me.
Anne Truitt
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.
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
the knowledge of personal failure ... is the invaluable predicate of all honest compassion.
Anne Truitt
I had forgotten what sleep is like - a kingdom all its own.
Anne Truitt
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.
Anne Truitt
