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“Simplify, slow down, be kind. And don't forget to have art in your life - music, paintings, theater, dance, and sunsets.”
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Eric Carle
#Life Quotes
#Art Quotes
#Sunset Quotes
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“The Very Hungry Caterpillar†story is about hope. You, like the little caterpillar, will grow up, unfold your wings and fly off into the future”
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Eric Carle
#Growing Up Quotes
#Wings Quotes
#Stories Quotes
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“We have eyes, and we're looking at stuff all the time, all day long. And I just think that whatever our eyes touch should be beautiful, tasteful, appealing, and important.”
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Eric Carle
#Beautiful Quotes
#Art Quotes
#Eye Quotes
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“On Saturday, he ate through one piece of chocolate cake, one ice-cream cone, one pickle, one slice of Swiss cheese, one slice of salami, one lollipop, one piece of cherry pie, one sausage, one cupcake, and one slice of watermelon That night he had a stomach ache.”
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Eric Carle
Source : Eric Carle (2016). “The Very Hungry Caterpillar”, p.19, Penguin
#Night Quotes
#Pie Quotes
#Ice Cream Quotes
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“Ever since I was very young, as far back as I can remember, I have loved making pictures. I knew even as a child that, when I grew up, I would be an artist of some kind. The lovely feeling of my pencil touching paper, a crayon making a star shape in my sketchbook, or my brush dipping into bright and colorful paints — these things affect me as joyfully today as they did all those years ago.”
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Eric Carle
#Stars Quotes
#Children Quotes
#Artist Quotes
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“He built a small house, called a cocoon, around himself. He stayed inside for more than two weeks. Then he nibbled a hole in the cocoon, pushed his way out and... he was a beautiful butterfly!”
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Eric Carle
Source : Eric Carle (2016). “The Very Hungry Caterpillar”, p.24, Penguin
#Beautiful Quotes
#Butterfly Quotes
#Two Quotes
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“One Sunday morning the warm sun came up and - pop! - out of the egg came a tiny and very hungry caterpillar.”
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Eric Carle
Source : Eric Carle (2016). “The Very Hungry Caterpillar”, p.7, Penguin
#Morning Quotes
#Sunday Quotes
#Eggs Quotes
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“The hardest part is developing the idea, and that can take years”
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Eric Carle
#Years Quotes
#Ideas Quotes
#Hardest Quotes
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“Let's put it this way: if you are a novelist, I think you start out with a 20 word idea, and you work at it and you wind up with a 200,000 word novel. We, picture-book people, or at least I, start out with 200,000 words and I reduce it to 20”
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Eric Carle
#Book Quotes
#Writing Quotes
#Thinking Quotes
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“They are deceptively simple. I admit that. But for me, all my life I try to simplify things. As a child in school, things were very hard for me to understand often, and I developed a knack, I think. I developed a process to simplify things so I would understand them.”
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Eric Carle
#Children Quotes
#School Quotes
#Simple Quotes
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“Papa, please get the moon for me.”
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Eric Carle
Source : Eric Carle (1998). “Stories for All Seasons”, Simon & Schuster
#Moon Quotes
#Papa Quotes
#Please Quotes
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“One day I think it's the greatest idea ever that I'm working on. The next day I think it's the worst that I've ever worked on - and I swing between that a lot. Some days I'm very happy with what I'm doing, and the next day I am desperate - it's not working out!”
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Eric Carle
#Thinking Quotes
#Swings Quotes
#Ideas Quotes
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“Brown Bear, Brown Bear was kind of my first important book”
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Eric Carle
#Book Quotes
#Important Quotes
#Firsts Quotes
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“You know, now it's sinking in. It's taken me a long time to realize - and it is sinking in - how important this book is. And I have a certain distance now. I've done it such a long time ago.”
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Eric Carle
#Distance Quotes
#Book Quotes
#Taken Quotes
