top of page
.png){kind=small}
"I thought it was amazing to work with authors, to get a manuscript and try to make up a cover for it."
Standard
Customized
More
"With Fellini, the fear dropped out of my work because it was such a happy experience... hanging out with Fellini, having pasta on the set with Fellini, and going out with Fellini!"
Author Name
Personal Development
"I really do hope that the Millennium Summit gives new impetus to the work of the United Nations."
Author Name
Personal Development
"The rest of my work, besides sketching and keeping a diary, which was the most troublesome of all, consisted in making geological and zoological collections."
Author Name
Personal Development
"If you can find your perfect job, create one."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Salary is the currency that is gotten from mortgaging your life and time."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Anytime we can take narcotics off the street it is significant because it takes them out of the hands of children. It certainly is not going to stop the drug problem, we have to work very, very hard."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Give a typical employee a million, and, he is most likely to use the money to print his CV on fancier paper."
Author Name
Personal Development
"For disappearing acts, it's hard to beat what happens to the eight hours supposedly left after eight of sleep and eight of work."
Author Name
Personal Development
"I admire Bruce Springsteen because he's a heroic person who has lots of integrity and has this incredible body of work that is so vital."
Author Name
Personal Development
"The artist likes to seem totally responsible for his work. Often he begins to explain it, to make it appear as if it were a reasonable process."
Author Name
Personal Development
More
"Before he went to sleep, I told him a little story about a rabbit we saw run around the beach house we rented."
Parenting
"I thought it was amazing to work with authors, to get a manuscript and try to make up a cover for it."
Work
"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."
Time
"I come from a family of business people, but I had the idea I wanted to become an artist."
Business
"Right at the beginning, I didn't know if Miffy was a boy or girl."
Beginning
"I have been drawing all my life."
Life
"My father realised that for me to become a publisher in his firm would have been the end of the firm!"
Family
"But we discovered that, although I liked publishing, the commercial side meant nothing at all to me."
Nothing
"I want a nice picture book with 12 pictures - I do my best with that format."
Want
"Miffy has changed quite a lot since the early books, although I never realised it at the time."
Time
bottom of page