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

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So that, to me, is important that audiences are treated with an amount of respect toward their intelligence. Most Hollywood films don't respect their intelligence.

Anne Truitt

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

Became, Fame, Grew, Visible, Work

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

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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.

Art, Artists, Combine, Crop, Long, Lying

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

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

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In order to see a fish you must watch the water

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