Anne Truitt Professions : Artist Born : March 16, 1921 Died : December 23, 2004 Browse All Authors Top 34 quotes by Anne Truitt It is ultimately character that underwrites art. Anne Truitt character art The art of being officially old seems to lie in cooperative submission. Anne Truitt age lying art 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 mysterious quality art The shape of my work's development becomes a little clearer every time I am forced to articulate it. Anne Truitt progress shapes development 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 analysis leaving art the capacity to work feeds on itself and has its own course of development. This is what artists have going for them. Anne Truitt creativity artist work Generosity is often the stalking horse of control. Anne Truitt stalking generosity horse The finest teaching touches in a student a spring neither teacher nor student could possibly have preconceived. Anne Truitt education spring teacher 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 long lying art The end of parenthood is implicit in its beginning: separation. Anne Truitt parenthood separation ends Humility is the daughter of truth. Anne Truitt philosophical daughter humility 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 essentials choices art I have been flooded with color on the inside, drab on the outside. Anne Truitt has-beens color the more visible my work became, the less visible I grew to myself. Anne Truitt visible grew fame Similar Authors Burton Silverman artist Bruce Nauman artist Bruce Conner artist Brom artist Britney Spears artist Brigid Berlin artist All Authors