Our society is monstrously disjunctive, at once so efficient in war and so inefficient in caring for the welfare of its members. It is frightening to…

- Anne Truitt

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

- Anne Truitt

In the range of my character at any given moment, I have acted in the only way it seemed to me I could have acted. This in no way means that I have d…

- Anne Truitt

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 rew…

- Anne Truitt

the knowledge of personal failure ... is the invaluable predicate of all honest compassion.

- Anne Truitt

I've struggled all my life to get maximum meaning in the simplest possible form.

- Anne Truitt

Artists have no choice but to express their lives.

- Anne Truitt

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

- Anne Truitt

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 ow…

- Anne Truitt