Top 5 Barbara Cooney Quotes
#1. She was an enthusiastic painter of oils and watercolors. She was also very generous. I could mess with her paints and brushes all I wanted. On one condition: that I kept my brushes clean. The only art lesson my mother gave me was how to wash my brushes.
Barbara Cooney
#2. You must do something to make the world more beautiful - Ms. Rumphius
Barbara Cooney
#3. I believe that children in this country need a more robust literary diet than they are getting ... . I will never talk down to, or draw down to, children.
Barbara Cooney
#4. 'Miss Rumphius' has been, perhaps, the closest to my heart. There are, of course, many dissimilarities between me and Alice Rumphius, but, as I worked, she gradually seemed to become my alter ego. Perhaps she had been that right from the start.
Barbara Cooney
#5. My favorite days were when I had a cold and could stay home from school and draw all day long.
Barbara Cooney
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