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The art of being officially old seems to lie in cooperative submission.
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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Baltimore
Maryland
Anne Dean Truitt
Anne Dean
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I had forgotten what sleep is like - a kingdom all its own.
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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 have been flooded with color on the inside, drab on the outside.
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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 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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January is my favorite month, when the light is plainest, least colored. And I like the feeling of beginnings.
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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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