Anne Truitt Quotes

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

Anne Truitt

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

Anne Truitt

#3. Artists have no choice but to express their lives,

Anne Truitt

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

Anne Truitt

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

Anne Truitt

#6. No one has the right to not assume that the business cycle will turn! Every five years or so, you have got to assume that something bad will happen.

Jamie Dimon

#7. vulnerability is a guardian of integrity

Anne Truitt

#8. 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

#9. The blessings we enjoy now are because we made the choice to follow the Savior before this life. To everyone hearing or reading these words, whoever you are and whatever your past may be, remember this: it is not too late to make that same choice again to follow him.

Robert D. Hales

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

Anne Truitt

#11. What's going to make me happy is going on the court and holding up trophies, singles and doubles.

Serena Williams

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

Anne Truitt

#13. Religion can bring great comfort to children.
It can also turn their lives into a living hell.

Janet Heimlich

#14. Humility is the daughter of truth.

Anne Truitt

#15. 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

#16. Generosity is often the stalking horse of control.

Anne Truitt

#17. The hallmark of a decision in line with one's inner development is a feeling of having laid down a burden and picked up a more natural responsibility.

Anne Truitt

#18. Perhaps the human lesson is always submission. We have a choice: to rebel or to recognize our powerlessness while maintaining our faith.

Anne Truitt

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

Anne Truitt

#20. I used to lie in bed in my flat and imagine what would happen if there was a zombie attack.

Simon Pegg

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

Anne Truitt

#22. The finest teaching touches in a student a spring neither teacher nor student could possibly have preconceived.

Anne Truitt

#23. I don't really know what the dream role would be. That's a hard question to answer. You never really know, until you're immersed into something, how passionate you feel for it and how it unravels.

Aaron Taylor-Johnson

#24. People who love each other can no more keep from communicating than from breathing. - Elana

Sylvia Engdahl

#25. 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.

Anne Truitt

#26. I've always seen 'Y' as an unconventional romance between a boy and his protector. It was always about the last boy on Earth becoming the last man on Earth, and the women who made that possible.

Brian K. Vaughan

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

Anne Truitt

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

Anne Truitt

#29. Don't gape at me, Logan, everyone sees the way you look at her, how you watch over her like a hawk. You're too protective of her. Combine that with your competitive nature, add a dash of lust and a pinch of anger, and you have a perfect recipe for trouble.

Sarah West

#30. Glancing over, I was astonished to see Adrian watching me, a look of contentment on his face. His eyes seemed to study my every feature. Seeing me notice him, he immediately looked away. His usual smirky expression replaced the dreamy one.

Richelle Mead

#31. 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.

Anne Truitt

#32. I never decided at all to be an artist; being an artist seems to have happened to me.

Anne Truitt

#33. My brother is a very bad policeman. So ... you're coming to school, right?" Doug
"Nnnnnnno." Zoey
"Come so you can be around people," Doug coaxed. "I don't think you should be alone today."
"I think I definitely should." Zoey
"Come so I won't worry about you." Doug ;]

Jennifer Echols

#34. 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

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

Anne Truitt

#36. I worked in between carpools and buying food and cooking and whatever else I had to do. I lived an outside life, but really I was living an inside life.

Anne Truitt

#37. You're more than just neither, honey. There's other ways to be than either-or. It's not so simple. Otherwise there wouldn't be so many people who don't fit.

Leslie Feinberg

#38. Art comes into the highest part of the mind, with which we can know the presence of God.

Anne Truitt

#39. I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me.

Dick Martin

#40. It is ultimately character that underwrites art.

Anne Truitt

#41. When love and discipline come together you have great chemistry.

Rick Pitino

#42. I had forgotten what sleep is like - a kingdom all its own.

Anne Truitt

#43. I have no home but me.

Anne Truitt