Anne Truitt Quotes - Page 2

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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.

  Anne Truitt

  Work, Creativity, Artist

  Anne Truitt (2013). “Daybook, Turn, Prospect: The Journey of an Artist”, p.129, Simon and Schuster

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

  Anne Truitt

  Parenthood, Separation, Ends

  Anne Truitt (2013). “Daybook: The Journal of an Artist”, p.187, Simon and Schuster

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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.

  Anne Truitt

  Art, Quality, Mysterious

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• Generosity is often the stalking horse of control.

  Anne Truitt

  Horse, Generosity, Stalking

  Anne Truitt, Audrey Niffenegger (2013). “Daybook: The Journal of an Artist”, p.192, Simon and Schuster

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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.

  Anne Truitt

  Art, Leaving, Analysis

  Anne Truitt (2013). “Daybook: The Journal of an Artist”, p.126, Simon and Schuster

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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.

  Anne Truitt

  Art, Moving, Talking

  Anne Truitt (1987). “Turn: The Journal of an Artist”

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• The finest teaching touches in a student a spring neither teacher nor student could possibly have preconceived.

  Anne Truitt

  Education, Teacher, Spring

  Anne Truitt (1996). “PROSPECT: The Journal of an Artist”, Scribner

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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

  Art, Lying, Long

  Anne Truitt (2013). “Daybook: The Journal of an Artist”, p.222, Simon and Schuster

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• the more visible my work became, the less visible I grew to myself.

  Anne Truitt

  Fame, Grew, Visible

  Anne Truitt, Audrey Niffenegger (2013). “Daybook: The Journal of an Artist”, p.12, Simon and Schuster

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