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I never quite know if what I do will be understood.
- Chris Raschka
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#Never
#Quite
#Understood
#Will
There has to be the right pacing of images to tell the story. I'm always stunned at how little you can put in.
- Chris Raschka
#Always
#How
#Right
#Story
#Tell
Any teacher in the arts and sciences has to maintain a sense of childlikeness to be truly inventive.
- Chris Raschka
#Arts
#Maintain
#Sense
#Teacher
#Truly
When I present the Charlie Parker book, I do a call and response that works quite well. With the Thelonious Monk book, I play the music and work with kids in a group to create a color wheel and show how the wheel can be mapped on a 12-tone chromatic scale.
- Chris Raschka
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#Group
#Music
#Wheel
#Work
With any book, I try to find where the manner of the making of the book is appropriate to the matter of the subject.
- Chris Raschka
#Book
#Find
#Matter
#Subject
#Try
Openness is something any teacher strives to instill in his or her students.
- Chris Raschka
#Her
#His
#Openness
#Something
#Teacher
Sometimes I worry about the amount of paper I waste.
- Chris Raschka
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#Paper
#Sometimes
#Waste
#Worry
Somewhere in this process, I begin reading and showing my book to my audience. When I say my audience, I mean a single imaginary child who is a blend of myself as a young person, the students in my wife's classroom of first- through third-graders, and the students from two classrooms I visit regularly in the Bronx, New York.
- Chris Raschka
#Myself
#New
#Person
#Process
#Wife
Whatever I'm thinking about has got to fit into thirty-two pages, the standard picture book size. So that's something. But the structure and the form for me are almost the most important, because these will express as much as words and images will the content of the work.
- Chris Raschka
#Me
#Picture
#Thinking
#Words
#Work
Usually, a number of events will be going on around me to start me on a book. What I mean is, I will have read a poem or seen a picture that is lingering in my mind.
- Chris Raschka
#Me
#Mean
#Mind
#Picture
#Start
To learn to ride a bicycle, as with the other great noble human inventions, is a hugely complex activity. Generally, it requires three things: the learner, the teacher and the bicycle, all in the same place at the same time, most often outside someplace.
- Chris Raschka
#Bicycle
#Great
#Ride
#Teacher
#Time
I want each and every entire brushstroke to be seen. I want the marks made by the tip of the brush to carry as much meaning as the marks made by the dragging tail end, the part that splits open as the paint pulls away, thins and dries.
- Chris Raschka
#End
#Meaning
#Open
#Paint
#Want
Hand any four-year-old a fist full of crayons, and it is a very, very few who don't get busy with them, drawing, coloring, scribbling. I have not stopped scribbling.
- Chris Raschka
#Busy
#Crayons
#Drawing
#Full
#Who
Part of why I like watercolor is that mistakes are visible, and you can't really repair much. It has to look easy. When it comes out, it looks easy, but to get to that point takes a lot of doing.
- Chris Raschka
#Doing
#Easy
#Look
#Mistakes
#Why
Whether it's music, loss of something, loneliness or friendship - if that emotion is heightened in some way and painted to fit in between the covers of 32 pages, that can become a picture book.
- Chris Raschka
#Friendship
#Loneliness
#Music
#Picture
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