Top 25 Quotes by Anne Truitt of 34 - Page 2

the capacity to work feeds on itself and has its own course of development. This is what artists have going for them.

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

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

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

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

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

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”

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

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