Dick Bruna is a famous Artist, he/she is 97 years old and still alive, born August 23, 1927.
Zodiac:
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.
16 Famous quotes by Dick Bruna
"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"
