Anne Truitt - Work Quotes

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The more visible my work became, the less visible I grew to myself.

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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.

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The capacity to work feeds on itself and has its own course of development. This is what artists have going for them.

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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 most intimate sensitivity.

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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.

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

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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.

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