Dick Bruna Quotes

Before he went to sleep, I told him a little story about a rabbit we saw run around the beach house we rented.
Dick Bruna

Sleep, Him, Before

But I don't sit down and think: this is meant for children.
Dick Bruna

Children, Down, Sit

But we discovered that, although I liked publishing, the commercial side meant nothing at all to me.
Dick Bruna

Nothing, Side, Liked

Each book first begins with a little idea.
Dick Bruna

Book, Idea, Begins

I come from a family of business people, but I had the idea I wanted to become an artist.
Dick Bruna

Family, Business, Become

I have been drawing all my life.
Dick Bruna

I thought it was amazing to work with authors, to get a manuscript and try to make up a cover for it.
Dick Bruna

Work, Amazing, Thought

I thought it would be very nice to become Picasso or Rembrandt, or a van Gogh.
Dick Bruna

Nice, Thought, Become

I want a nice picture book with 12 pictures - I do my best with that format.
Dick Bruna

Best, Nice, Book

Miffy has changed quite a lot since the early books, although I never realised it at the time.
Dick Bruna

Time, Since, Books

My father realised that for me to become a publisher in his firm would have been the end of the firm!
Dick Bruna

End, Father, Become

Right at the beginning, I didn't know if Miffy was a boy or girl.
Dick Bruna

Girl, Beginning, Boy

When I make a book, I make it for the child and not for the parent - no jokes in it for the parents!
Dick Bruna

Parents, Book, Child

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.
Dick Bruna

Give, Matter, Idea

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.
Dick Bruna

Time, Father, Chance

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.
Dick Bruna

Children, Book, Together

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Biography

Type: Artist

Born: August 23, 1927

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