Dick Bruna
Dick Bruna
Dick Brunais a Dutch author, artist, illustrator and graphic designer...
ProfessionArtist
Date of Birth23 August 1927
trying manuscripts
I thought it was amazing to work with authors, to get a manuscript and try to make up a cover for it.
life drawing has-beens
I have been drawing all my life.
artist ideas people
I come from a family of business people, but I had the idea I wanted to become an artist.
two-sides sides publishing
But we discovered that, although I liked publishing, the commercial side meant nothing at all to me.
book ideas giving
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.
education book ideas
Each book first begins with a little idea.
children book parent
When I make a book, I make it for the child and not for the parent - no jokes in it for the parents!
american-author expected father
However, my father was a publisher and it was expected that I would become a publisher as well - in his firm.
american-author rabbit run saw
Before he went to sleep, I told him a little story about a rabbit we saw run around the beach house we rented.
father book drawing
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.
nice book want
I want a nice picture book with 12 pictures - I do my best with that format.
nice would-be vans
I thought it would be very nice to become Picasso or Rembrandt, or a van Gogh.
father ends firm
My father realised that for me to become a publisher in his firm would have been the end of the firm!
children book drawing
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.