Dick Bruna Quotes, Sayings, Remarks, Thoughts and Speeches
Dick Bruna Quotes and Sayings
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Before he went to sleep, I told him a little story about a rabbit we saw run around the beach house we rented.
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But I don't sit down and think: this is meant for children.
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But we discovered that, although I liked publishing, the commercial side meant nothing at all to me.
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Each book first begins with a little idea.
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However, my father was a publisher and it was expected that I would become a publisher as well - in his firm.
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I come from a family of business people, but I had the idea I wanted to become an artist.
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I did about 2000 covers altogether, for all sorts of books - from Shakespeare to James Bond - and I always had the idea that I must give 100%, no matter who the author was.
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I have been drawing all my life.
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I thought it was amazing to work with authors, to get a manuscript and try to make up a cover for it.
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I thought it would be very nice to become Picasso or Rembrandt, or a van Gogh.
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I want a nice picture book with 12 pictures - I do my best with that format.
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Miffy has changed quite a lot since the early books, although I never realised it at the time.
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My father realised that for me to become a publisher in his firm would have been the end of the firm!
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Now, I had been drawing all this time - especially in France of course - so, when I came back, my father gave me the chance to do a cover for one of the books he published.
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Right at the beginning, I didn't know if Miffy was a boy or girl.
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Then one day I thought it would be wonderful to make a whole book, to make my text and my drawings together, and that's how I started doing children's books.
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When I make a book, I make it for the child and not for the parent - no jokes in it for the parents!
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