Dick Bruna Quotes

• 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

  45 Copy quote

• 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

  4 Copy quote

• Each book first begins with a little idea.

  Dick Bruna

  Education, Book, Ideas

  7 Copy quote

• I have been drawing all my life.

  Dick Bruna

  Life, Drawing, Inspire

  4 Copy quote

• I come from a family of business people, but I had the idea I wanted to become an artist.

  Dick Bruna

  Artist, Ideas, People

  4 Copy quote

• I thought it would be very nice to become Picasso or Rembrandt, or a van Gogh.

  Dick Bruna

  Nice, Would Be, Vans

  4 Copy quote

• But we discovered that, although I liked publishing, the commercial side meant nothing at all to me.

  Dick Bruna

  Two Sides, Sides, Publishing

  4 Copy quote

• 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

  6 Copy quote

• I want a nice picture book with 12 pictures - I do my best with that format.

  Dick Bruna

  Nice, Book, Want

  52 Copy quote

• 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, Manuscripts

  4 Copy quote

• 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

  4 Copy quote

• 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

  4 Copy quote

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