Dick Bruna Quotes and Sayings - Page 1

“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 Quotes #Book Quotes #Parent Quotes
“Each book first begins with a little idea.”
-- Dick Bruna

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

#Two Sides Quotes #Sides Quotes #Publishing Quotes
“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 Quotes #Book Quotes #Drawing Quotes
“I want a nice picture book with 12 pictures - I do my best with that format.”
-- Dick Bruna

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

#Nice Quotes #Would Be Quotes #Vans Quotes
“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 Quotes
“My father realised that for me to become a publisher in his firm would have been the end of the firm!”
-- Dick Bruna

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

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

#Life Quotes #Drawing Quotes
“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 Quotes #Book Quotes #Drawing Quotes

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