24 Quotes by Chris Raschka

I never quite know if what I do will be understood.

If you labor heavily upon a work of art, then part of what you are saying is, 'This is a heavy work of art.' If you happen to be trying to say something about lightness, then the art should be light as well.

The Caldecott Award has allowed me to keep doing what I'm doing for some time longer, for which I am ever grateful.

If it's just brushstrokes wrestling around, it isn't much of a picture book, is it? There still has to be a picture. And maybe it needs to be a picture of a dog named Daisy or a little girl riding a bike. So I have to be careful before I get too carried away in the manner itself.

There has to be the right pacing of images to tell the story. I'm always stunned at how little you can put in.

With any book, I try to find where the manner of the making of the book is appropriate to the matter of the subject.