Anne Truitt Quotes about Art

Art comes into the highest part of the mind, that with which we can know the presence of God.

Art comes into the highest part of the mind, that with which we can know the presence of God.

Art, Mind, Presence Of God

"Daybook, Turn, Prospect: The Journey of an Artist".

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

Art, People, Facts

Anne Truitt (2013). “Daybook: The Journal of an Artist”, p.136, Simon and Schuster

The difference between men and women is inalienable. It is not a political fact, subject to cultural definition and redefinition, but a physical verity. We do truthfully experience our lives differently because our bodies are different. It is in what we do with our experience that we are the same. We feel, absorb and examine with the same intensity, and intense experience honestly examined informs the art of both sexes equally. ... The power of imagination illuminates all human lives in common.

Anne Truitt

Art, Sex, Men

It is ultimately character that underwrites art.

Anne Truitt

Art, Character

Anne Truitt, Audrey Niffenegger (2013). “Daybook: The Journal of an Artist”, p.63, Simon and Schuster

The art of being officially old seems to lie in cooperative submission.

Anne Truitt

Art, Lying, Age

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

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

Art, Choices, Essentials

Anne Truitt, Audrey Niffenegger (2013). “Daybook: The Journal of an Artist”, p.38, 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

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”

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

Anne Truitt Quotes about Art

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