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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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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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'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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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Writer

Born: August 6th, 1917

Died: March 10th, 2000

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