No one questions the fact that verbal language has to be learned, but the commonplaceness of visual experience … - Anne Truitt

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I know some amazing actors who are not mortified every moment of the day, so my feeling is that maybe you don't have to be a wreck to be good.

Anne Truitt

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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