Quotes by 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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• 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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Subjects in these quotes:

• enthusiastic
• watercolors
• gradually
• condition
• generous
• brushes

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