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!

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• 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.

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• Right at the beginning, I didn’t know if Miffy was a boy or girl.

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• 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.

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• My father realised that for me to become a publisher in his firm would have been the end of the firm!

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• Miffy has changed quite a lot since the early books, although I never realised it at the time.

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

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

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• I thought it was amazing to work with authors, to get a manuscript and try to make up a cover for it.

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• I have been drawing all my life.

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• 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.

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

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• Each book first begins with a little idea.

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

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• But I don’t sit down and think: this is meant for children.

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• Before he went to sleep, I told him a little story about a rabbit we saw run around the beach house we rented.

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Dick Bruna (16)

Birth:	23rd August, 1927
Nationality:	Dutch
Profession:	Artist, Graphic Designer, Illustrator, Writer

About

Dick Bruna was born in Utrecht, Netherlands. He is a Dutch  artist, illustrator, writer, and graphic designer. His best known creation is Miffy, a small rabbit drawn with heavy graphic lines, simple shapes and primary colors. He is recognized for his substantial and seminal contribution to children’s literature. He authored and illustrated more than two hundred books. His most popular designs graced the covers of the Zwarte Beertjes series of books.

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