Dick Bruna famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

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

#Children #Book #Parent
Each book first begins with a little idea.
-- Dick Bruna

#Education #Book #Ideas
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

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

#Two Sides #Sides #Publishing
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

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

#Nice #Book #Want
I thought it would be very nice to become Picasso or Rembrandt, or a van Gogh.
-- Dick Bruna

#Nice #Would Be #Vans
I thought it was amazing to work with authors, to get a manuscript and try to make up a cover for it.
-- Dick Bruna

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

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

#Artist #Ideas #People
I have been drawing all my life.
-- Dick Bruna

#Life #Drawing
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 #Drawing

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