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.
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
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
I have slowly come to realize that a family is composed of people who are teaching one another.
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
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…
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
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…
I've struggled all my life to get maximum meaning in the simplest possible form. - Anne Truitt
I've struggled all my life to get maximum meaning in the simplest possible form.
the knowledge of personal failure ... is the invaluable predicate of all honest compassion. - Anne Truitt
the knowledge of personal failure ... is the invaluable predicate of all honest compassion.
Artists have no choice but to express their lives. - Anne Truitt
Artists have no choice but to express their lives.
The art of being officially old seems to lie in cooperative submission. - Anne Truitt
The art of being officially old seems to lie in cooperative submission.
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
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…
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