top of page
"Right at the beginning, I didn't know if Miffy was a boy or girl."
Standard
Customized
Exlpore more Beginning quotes

"The beginning of Canadian cultural nationalism was not 'Am I really that oppressed?' but 'Am I really that boring?'"

"It is better to start small than to not start at all because you are waiting to be perfect with your skills. The truth is that you can never achieve perfection in life. Even the greatest man on earth is still incapable of doing so. The ultimate goal is to start now and grow as you go."

"What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from."

"A mansion begins with one brick. A forest begins with one tree. A harvest begins with one seed. An ocean begins with one drop. A friendship begins with one gesture. A fire begins with one spark. A revolution begins with one idea."

"Everything that has a beginning comes to an end."
Explore more quotes by Dick Bruna

"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."

"When I make a book, I make it for the child and not for the parent - no jokes in it for the parents!"

"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."

"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."

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

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

"But we discovered that, although I liked publishing, the commercial side meant nothing at all to me."
bottom of page