Facts about Dick Bruna
Summary
Dick Bruna is a famous Artist, he/she is still alive and was born August 23, 1927.
Zodiac etc.
He/she is born under the zodiac virgo, who is known for Analyzing, Practical, Reflective, Observation, Thoughtful.
Our collection contains 16 quotes who is written / told by Dick.
Here is some other popular authors who lived in the same timeframe: George Will, Khaleda Zia, Clive James, Tom Metzger, Joe Namath, Willie Mays, Mike Ditka, Martin Yan, Didier Drogba, Øystein Stray Spetalen, Billy Zane, Robert Indiana, Whitfield Diffie, Twyla Tharp, Jim Rohn, Richard Scaife, Maria Cantwell, Rachel Corrie, Amy Lee, John C. Reilly
Famous quotes by Dick Bruna (16)
"Right at the beginning, I didn't know if Miffy was a boy or girl"
"I thought it was amazing to work with authors, to get a manuscript and try to make up a cover for it"
"I come from a family of business people, but I had the idea I wanted to become an artist"
"Each book first begins with a little idea"
"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"
"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"
"But we discovered that, although I liked publishing, the commercial side meant nothing at all to me"
"When I make a book, I make it for the child and not for the parent - no jokes in it for the parents!"
"But I don't sit down and think: this is meant for children"
"Miffy has changed quite a lot since the early books, although I never realised it at the time"
"My father realised that for me to become a publisher in his firm would have been the end of the firm!"
"I want a nice picture book with 12 pictures - I do my best with that format"
"I have been drawing all my life"
"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"
"Before he went to sleep, I told him a little story about a rabbit we saw run around the beach house we rented"
"I thought it would be very nice to become Picasso or Rembrandt, or a van Gogh"
Comments
|