Anthony Browne Quotes

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• I hope to encourage more children to discover and love reading, but I want to focus particularly on the appreciation of picture books…. Picture books…
• Picture books are for everybody at any age, not books to be left behind as we grow older.
• The first things I remember drawing were battles - big sheets of paper covered in terrible scenes of carnage - though when you looked closely,…
• Writers are articulate. Artists find it more difficult.
• Pictures are as evocative to me as smells.
• M dad was a boxer, so he had this fierce, physical presence.
• I had just been promoted to the first rugby team. It was a perfect, wonderful coming of age. My brother was already in the team,…
• From 17 to 21, I was obsessed by sport and art. In art, I loved the pre-Raphaelites and Rembrandt first. Then I discovered Salvador Dali,…
• A lot of my characters are underdogs or sad or lonely, but I had a comfortable, golden sort of childhood.
• I grew up with an older brother who was always stronger and faster and better than me at everything, but I was close enough in…
• Maurice Sendak is the daddy of them all when it comes to picture books - the words, the rhythm, the psychology, the design.
• Most people lose their natural creativity at about five or six - but not me.
• Worrying can be a kind of caring, and as such is a healthy part of a balanced emotional life.
• Stories come to me in mysterious ways, more like dreams than reasoned creations.
• The first thing I put down on paper is a storyboard, like a film director.
• Something happens to our creativity as we go through the education process; most of us lose touch with it.
• The illustrations in picture books are the first paintings most children see, and because of that, they are incredibly important. What we see and share…
• My dad never decided what he wanted to do; at times he fought in the army, was a teacher, a boxer, a light engineer, and…
• Although I have two good Anglepoise lights, I much prefer to work by daylight.
• 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…

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