Dick Bruna (born Hendrik Magdalenus Bruna, 23 August 1927 – 16 February 2017)[2] was a Dutch author, artist, illustrator and graphic designer. (wikipedia)
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 have been drawing all my life.
I come from a family of business people, but I had the idea I wanted to become an artist.
My father realised that for me to become a publisher in his firm would have been the end of the firm!
I thought it was amazing to work with authors, to get a manuscript and try to make up a cover for it.
I thought it would be very nice to become Picasso or Rembrandt, or a van Gogh.
I want a nice picture book with 12 pictures - I do my best with that format.
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.
But we discovered that, although I liked publishing, the commercial side meant nothing at all to me.
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.