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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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"That most limited of all specialists, the "well-rounded man"."
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"The world system is employment."
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"A butler supplies food to nourish your body, but a writer nourishes your mind through writing."
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"Do not be weary to make money."
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"Employers are at their happiest on Mondays. Employees are at their happiest on Fridays."
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"Work was intended not to give a man a reason to live, but rather to give him a means to live."
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"Be robust enough to work more than a robot!"
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"Being happy at work is possible for all of us, anytime & anywhere, with open eyes and a caring heart."
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"Back then, work revolved around life. Today, life revolves around work."
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"Do all the work you while you still have strength."
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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 thought it would be very nice to become Picasso or Rembrandt, or a van Gogh."
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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."
Thought
"I come from a family of business people, but I had the idea I wanted to become an artist."
Business
"But we discovered that, although I liked publishing, the commercial side meant nothing at all to me."
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"I want a nice picture book with 12 pictures - I do my best with that format."
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"Right at the beginning, I didn't know if Miffy was a boy or girl."
Beginning
"I thought it was amazing to work with authors, to get a manuscript and try to make up a cover for it."
Work
"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."
Creativity
"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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