"What excites me about picture books is the……" — Anthony Browne
"What excites me about picture books is the gap between pictures and words. Sometimes the pictures can tell a slightly different story or tell more about the story, about how someone is thinking or feeling."
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26 Quotes by Anthony Browne
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I hope to encourage more children to discover and love reading, but I want to focus particularly on the appreciation…
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Picture books are for everybody at any age, not books to be left behind as we grow older.
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The first things I remember drawing were battles - big sheets of paper covered in terrible scenes of carnage -…
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Writers are articulate. Artists find it more difficult.
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Pictures are as evocative to me as smells.
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M dad was a boxer, so he had this fierce, physical presence.
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I had just been promoted to the first rugby team. It was a perfect, wonderful coming of age. My brother…
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From 17 to 21, I was obsessed by sport and art. In art, I loved the pre-Raphaelites and Rembrandt first.…
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A lot of my characters are underdogs or sad or lonely, but I had a comfortable, golden sort of childhood.
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I grew up with an older brother who was always stronger and faster and better than me at everything, but…
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Maurice Sendak is the daddy of them all when it comes to picture books - the words, the rhythm, the…
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Most people lose their natural creativity at about five or six - but not me.
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