Make it all about the work. Everything else will follow.

- Jerry Pinkney

I've always felt that if I worked hard enough and continued to refine my craft, while staying curious about our times and our world, I just might hav…

- Jerry Pinkney

I have to believe that when I finish a project, that I will not only grow as an artist, but as a person.

- Jerry Pinkney

All of us have places that we can go where we feel most complete.

- Jerry Pinkney

I never demonstrate how art should be made or what the outcome should look like. Instead, give kids the tools and the materials to make their own art…

- Jerry Pinkney

We live in a time when there is an abundance of ways we can express ourselves.

- Jerry Pinkney

If you do the best work you can, the reward is ultimately your self-satisfaction - the sense that you have done the best you can. And then there's th…

- Jerry Pinkney

I wanted to show that an African-American artist could make it in this country on a national level in the graphic arts. I want to be a strong role mo…

- Jerry Pinkney

A sense of community has always been important to me. I understood very early that I could not grow as an artist or as a person without being connect…

- Jerry Pinkney