Mark Jenkins Quotes & Sayings

Stop worrying about whether they can handle it. You want the truth? Your kid is hardier than you are ... Kids are tough. — Mark Jenkins

Adventure becomes hubris when it blinds you to the suffering of the human beings next to you. — Mark Jenkins

Climbing mountains is an act I happen to love, but it is only one form of adventure. There are thousands. In fact, there's one for every human with the passion to push personal boundaries. — Mark Jenkins

Maps are essential. Planning a journey without a map is like building a house without drawings. — Mark Jenkins

Interfacing street sculpture in public space creates an installation environment that turns regular space into art space. Signs and people and everything around a street sculpture-they all become part of it. A two-dimensional work, being confined to surfaces, doesn't have as much of a capacity. — Mark Jenkins

Once I have the finished sculpture, I'll put it out on the street or in nature or somewhere where it interacts with the environment. Really it's kind of the idea of turning the street into a stage and this sort of urban theater has a life of its own. If you have creative drive, and you need to manifest it, then you need some sort of medium to do that through. For me, it worked out with sculpture, and tape just is a means of doing sculpture. — Mark Jenkins

Give your kids responsibility. Once outside, let them lead, who cares if you get lost; it might be the best trip you've ever had. — Mark Jenkins

Kids are natural little outdoor people. It is we, the adults, who turn them into indoor people. If you don't get of fyour computer, why should they? — Mark Jenkins

At a certain age [ ... ] you start thinking you might have learned something when you were young if you hadn't already been so smart. — Mark Jenkins

Maps encourage boldness. They're like cryptic love letters. They make anything seem possible. — Mark Jenkins

Wanderlust is incurable. — Mark Jenkins