Anne Truitt - Daybook: The Journal of an Artist (1982)

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

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Love... is the honoring of others in a way that grants them the grace of their own autonomy and allows mutual discovery.

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

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

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

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

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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.

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I had forgotten what sleep is like—a kingdom all its own.

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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.

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Their essential effort is to catapult themselves wholly, without holding back one bit, into a course of action without having any idea where they will end up. They are like riders who gallop into the night, eagerly leaning on their horse's neck, peering into a blinding rain. And they have to do it over and over again.

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

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If what I am watching evaporated before my eyes, I would remain.

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