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1. Daybook: The Journal of an Artist

   Anne Truitt

   “I saw myself stretched like brown earth in furrows, open to the sky, well planted, my life as a human being complete.”

   Artist Anne Truitt on the transcendent sense of “enough” and the epiphany that revealed to her the purpose of art:

2. Turn: The Journal of an Artist

   Anne Truitt

   “I should have had more courage, dared, risked rejection, even ejection — naked, awkward, crouched as Eve in Masaccio’s Expulsion from Paradise. ‘Should’ is a dreadful auxiliary word, and worst when linked with ‘have’… I mourn what I did not know when I was married: the necessity for honesty between people if mutuality is to bud out of a status quo into air it can then fill with a new form.”

   Artist Anne Truitt on love, loss, and what makes marriage work – one of the most beautiful and truthful things ever written:

3. Turn: The Journal of an Artist

   Anne Truitt

   “Vulnerability is a guardian of integrity.”

   Artist Anne Truitt on vulnerability, integrity, and what nourishes the creative spirit – the most wonderful thing I’ve read in ages: