Top 30 Anne Truitt Quotes (2024 Update)

Anne Truitt Quote: “January is my favorite month, when the light is plainest, least colored. And I like the feeling of beginnings.”

1. “January is my favorite month, when the light is plainest, least colored. And I like the feeling of beginnings.”

— Anne Truitt

Anne Truitt Quote: “I have no home but me.”

2. “I have no home but me.”

— Anne Truitt

Anne Truitt Quote: “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.”

3. “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

Anne Truitt Quote: “Humility is the daughter of truth.”

4. “Humility is the daughter of truth.”

— Anne Truitt

Anne Truitt Quote: “Generosity is often the stalking horse of control.”

5. “Generosity is often the stalking horse of control.”

— Anne Truitt

Anne Truitt Quote: “I have slowly come to realize that a family is composed of people who are teaching one another.”

6. “I have slowly come to realize that a family is composed of people who are teaching one another.”

— Anne Truitt

Anne Truitt Quote: “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.”

7. “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

Anne Truitt Quote: “The finest teaching touches in a student a spring neither teacher nor student could possibly have preconceived.”

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

— Anne Truitt

Anne Truitt Quote: “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.”

9. “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

Anne Truitt Quote: “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.”

10. “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

Anne Truitt Quote: “I never decided at all to be an artist; being an artist seems to have happened to me.”

11. “I never decided at all to be an artist; being an artist seems to have happened to me.”

— Anne Truitt

Anne Truitt Quote: “It is ultimately character that underwrites art.”

12. “It is ultimately character that underwrites art.”

— Anne Truitt

Anne Truitt Quote: “There’s a small still center into which conception can arrive. And when it arrives, you make it welcome with your experience.”

13. “There’s a small still center into which conception can arrive. And when it arrives, you make it welcome with your experience.”

— Anne Truitt

Anne Truitt Quote: “The art of being officially old seems to lie in cooperative submission.”

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

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Anne Truitt Quote: “I have been flooded with color on the inside, drab on the outside.”

15. “I have been flooded with color on the inside, drab on the outside.”

— Anne Truitt

Anne Truitt Quote: “The shape of my work’s development becomes a little clearer every time I am forced to articulate it.”

16. “The shape of my work’s development becomes a little clearer every time I am forced to articulate it.”

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Anne Truitt Quote: “I come to the point of using steel, and simply cannot. It’s like the marriage proposal of a perfectly eligible man who just isn’t loveable. It is wood I love.”

17. “I come to the point of using steel, and simply cannot. It’s like the marriage proposal of a perfectly eligible man who just isn’t loveable. It is wood I love.”

— Anne Truitt

Anne Truitt Quote: “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.”

18. “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.”

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Anne Truitt Quote: “I notice that I have to pay careful attention in order to listen to others with an openness that allows them to be as they are, or as they think themselves to be. The shutters of my mind habitually flip open and click shut, and these little snaps form into patterns I arrange for myself. The opposite of this inattention is love, is the honoring of others in a way that grants them the grace of their own autonomy and allows mutual discovery.”

19. “I notice that I have to pay careful attention in order to listen to others with an openness that allows them to be as they are, or as they think themselves to be. The shutters of my mind habitually flip open and click shut, and these little snaps form into patterns I arrange for myself. The opposite of this inattention is love, is the honoring of others in a way that grants them the grace of their own autonomy and allows mutual discovery.”

— Anne Truitt

Anne Truitt Quote: “Art comes into the highest part of the mind, with which we can know the presence of God.”

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

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Anne Truitt Quote: “I had forgotten what sleep is like – a kingdom all its own.”

21. “I had forgotten what sleep is like – a kingdom all its own.”

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Anne Truitt Quote: “This life, a gift of grace for an unknown reason, must be lived purely, because at death we return with its accruements to our source. Life is entrusted to us, does not belong to us, and has to be restored in honorable condition. We are responsible for this trust, and must live with this fact in mind.”

22. “This life, a gift of grace for an unknown reason, must be lived purely, because at death we return with its accruements to our source. Life is entrusted to us, does not belong to us, and has to be restored in honorable condition. We are responsible for this trust, and must live with this fact in mind.”

— Anne Truitt

Anne Truitt Quote: “Perhaps the human lesson is always submission. We have a choice: to rebel or to recognize our powerlessness while maintaining our faith.”

23. “Perhaps the human lesson is always submission. We have a choice: to rebel or to recognize our powerlessness while maintaining our faith.”

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Anne Truitt Quote: “The hallmark of a decision in line with one’s character is ease and contentment, and an ample, even provision of natural energy.”

24. “The hallmark of a decision in line with one’s character is ease and contentment, and an ample, even provision of natural energy.”

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Anne Truitt Quote: “I am, and I am going to be, the kind of person I have trained myself to be. In a way that almost amounts to just retribution, I am stuck with the results of all my choices.”

25. “I am, and I am going to be, the kind of person I have trained myself to be. In a way that almost amounts to just retribution, I am stuck with the results of all my choices.”

— Anne Truitt

Anne Truitt Quote: “The hallmark of a decision in line with one’s inner development is a feeling of having laid down a burden and picked up a more natural responsibility.”

26. “The hallmark of a decision in line with one’s inner development is a feeling of having laid down a burden and picked up a more natural responsibility.”

— Anne Truitt

Anne Truitt Quote: “The end of parenthood is implicit in its beginning: separation.”

27. “The end of parenthood is implicit in its beginning: separation.”

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Anne Truitt Quote: “I refused, and still refuse, the inflated definition of artists as special people with special prerogatives and special excuses.”

28. “I refused, and still refuse, the inflated definition of artists as special people with special prerogatives and special excuses.”

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Anne Truitt Quote: “It is as if I had to take Sam back into the uterus to protect him, to reestablish the placental connection in order to nourish him through his crisis. Perhaps because of this primitive reaction, his recovery is marked by an increasing independence for both of us, a feeling of health and ease as if, in some mysterious way, he had accomplished his second birth, into adulthood, by means of this violent accident.”

29. “It is as if I had to take Sam back into the uterus to protect him, to reestablish the placental connection in order to nourish him through his crisis. Perhaps because of this primitive reaction, his recovery is marked by an increasing independence for both of us, a feeling of health and ease as if, in some mysterious way, he had accomplished his second birth, into adulthood, by means of this violent accident.”

— Anne Truitt

Anne Truitt Quote: “By feeling their pain, I protected myself from my own.”

30. “By feeling their pain, I protected myself from my own.”

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Anne Truitt Quote: “By keeping on being what we most intimately are, we can continually redefine ourselves so that we become what we have not been able to be. If we live this way, we surprise ourselves.”

31. “By keeping on being what we most intimately are, we can continually redefine ourselves so that we become what we have not been able to be. If we live this way, we surprise ourselves.”

— Anne Truitt

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