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

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Jerry Pinkney

#Kids Quotes #Artist Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“You know, there's a saying in art that in order to be universal you must be specific. So I think every artist feels that he is dealing with specific things but that it also has significance universally.”
“I don't think tennis is a glamour game, not at all.”
“Blame someone else and get on with your life.”
“Things at home didn't change much. I still have to clean my own room!”
“I've upped my standards. Now, up yours.”
“The recent past is full of diverse examples of writers - Mahfouz in Egypt, Pamuk in Turkey, and more interestingly, Pasternak in the Soviet Union - who have conducted their arguments with their societies and its political arrangements through their art in subtle, oblique ways. They didn't always have the license to make bold pronouncements about freedom, democracy, Islam, and liberalism, but they exerted another kind of moral authority through their work.”
“Where the vast cloudless sky was broken by one crow I sat upon a hill - all alone - long ago; But I never felt so lonely and so out of God's way, As here, where I brush elbows with a thousand every day.”
“I love words; they are the quoits, the bows, the staves that furnish the gymnasium of the mind.”

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