Barbara Cooney Quotes

Quotations and aphorisms by Barbara Cooney:

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


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It was not until I was in my forties, in the fifth decade of my life, that the sense of place, the spirit of place, became of paramount importance to me. It was then that I began my travels, that I discovered, through photography, the quality of light, and that I gradually became able to paint the mood of place.
~Barbara Cooney


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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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'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


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/barbara-cooney-quotes/#c90bba4d

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