Pinkney Quotes

#1. I try not to respond with a pep talk, such as, "Everyone has talent, just try, you'll see." I skirt those kinds of answers.

Jerry Pinkney

#2. I visited the Museum of Modern Art and viewed the exhibition of Picasso's sculptures, and I couldn't help but think about what it would be like to have a room full of school children explore Picasso's approach to making art.

Jerry Pinkney

#3. I want kids to understand that making pictures is similar to making music; there are so many instruments and so many tunes that the possibilities for how you play are truly limitless.

Jerry Pinkney

#4. Make it all about the work. Everything else will follow.

Jerry Pinkney

#5. The blues have hope wrapped inside them.

Andrea Davis Pinkney

#6. One of the most refreshing changes I've seen in recent years is the blending of genres - the pushing past the hard-and-fast lines of specific publishing categories.

Andrea Davis Pinkney

#7. One looks, looks long, and the world comes in.

Joseph Campbell

#8. As a publisher and author, I'm a big fan of historical fiction and also memoir.

Andrea Davis Pinkney

#9. I never leave home without my writing notebook, and get a lot of writing done in transit. One great place to create is while riding the subways of New York City, where I live.

Andrea Davis Pinkney

#10. I do think it's important to expose kids to artists.

Jerry Pinkney

#11. One of the challenges of wearing so many hats, is that I love each and every one of them!

Andrea Davis Pinkney

#12. I'm a true opera buff. Operas make the best stories.

Andrea Davis Pinkney

#13. I wanted to show young people that taking a stand can be done by simply standing firm in your convictions.

Andrea Davis Pinkney

#14. The autumn always gets me badly, as it breaks into colours. I want to go south, where there is no autumn, where the cold doesn't crouch over one like a snow-leopard waiting to pounce.

D.H. Lawrence

#15. What is poetry? you ask, while fixing your blue pupil on mine.
What is poetry! And you are asking me?
Poetry ... is you.

Gustavo Adolfo Becquer

#16. We live in a time when there is an abundance of ways we can express ourselves.

Jerry Pinkney

#17. the look we give back to death when death looks at us.

Rick Yancey

#18. You do not truly own anything that you can't carry in both arms at a dead run

Robert A. Heinlein

#19. I wanted to show that an African-American artist could make it in this country on a national level in the graphic arts. I want to be a strong role model for my family and for other African Americans.

Jerry Pinkney

#20. The best advice I can give to any aspiring author is to write every single day. Work at the craft of writing. Take it seriously.

Andrea Davis Pinkney

#21. The reality of a person is a deep and hidden thing, buried not only in the invisible recesses of man's own metaphysical secrecy but in the secrecy of God Himself.

Thomas Merton

#22. A sense of community has always been important to me. I understood very early that I could not grow as an artist or as a person without being connected to institutions and clients that served the community.

Jerry Pinkney

#23. Like any working mother, I have to balance and manage my time very carefully. My children and husband come first, of course, then my work.

Andrea Davis Pinkney

#24. I've always felt that if I worked hard enough and continued to refine my craft, while staying curious about our times and our world, I just might have something to contribute.

Jerry Pinkney

#25. It was reported today that U.S. military bases will not show 'Brokeback Mountain.' However, during interrogations, U.S. troops will continue to show 'Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo.'

Conan O'Brien

#26. The thing was the thing that implied the greatest number of other things of the sort he had had to tackle; and it was queer of course, but so it was - the implication here was complete. Not

Henry James

#27. If I were to give myself a pat on the back, it would be for sticking with bookmaking as my primary way of expressing myself over the span of fifty years.

Jerry Pinkney

#28. When I'm not writing or working on books as a publisher, I'm doing things that make me happy. One is skiing with my kids and husband. I love sports.

Andrea Davis Pinkney

#29. Receiving both the Coretta Scott King - Virginia Hamilton Award for Lifetime Achievement and the Laura Ingalls Wilder Award suggests I have succeeded, at least in terms of my own goals, in my intent to make art that moves children.

Jerry Pinkney

#30. It's hard to think seriously about grace until you understand that you've failed morally and will someday stand accountable before a holy God.

Lee Strobel

#31. Songs like the Buck Owens tune, for example, are very simple and straightforward, and recording it really gave me a chance to get into and get a sense of Buck's personality, a feel for that whole Bakersfield sound.

Juice Newton

#32. I don't think Ed Reed has to take a back seat to anybody who ever played the position. ANYBODY.

Ronnie Lott

#33. This great God loves us still, He loved us since the world began and what's more, He always will.

Helen Steiner Rice

#34. I never demonstrate how art should be made or what the outcome should look like. Instead, give kids the tools and the materials to make their own art. Have them experience the process.

Jerry Pinkney