Eric Carle Quotes

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• We have eyes, and we're looking at stuff all the time, all day long. And I just think that whatever our eyes touch should be…
• Ever since I was very young, as far back as I can remember, I have loved making pictures. I knew even as a child that,…
• One day I think it's the greatest idea ever that I'm working on. The next day I think it's the worst that I've ever worked…
• Let's put it this way: if you are a novelist, I think you start out with a 20 word idea, and you work at it…
• The hardest part is developing the idea, and that can take years
• They are deceptively simple. I admit that. But for me, all my life I try to simplify things. As a child in school, things were…
• You know, now it's sinking in. It's taken me a long time to realize - and it is sinking in - how important this book…
• The Very Hungry Caterpillar” story is about hope. You, like the little caterpillar, will grow up, unfold your wings and fly off into the future
• Simplify, slow down, be kind. And don't forget to have art in your life - music, paintings, theater, dance, and sunsets.
• Brown Bear, Brown Bear was kind of my first important book
• On Saturday, he ate through one piece of chocolate cake, one ice-cream cone, one pickle, one slice of Swiss cheese, one slice of salami, one…
• He built a small house, called a cocoon, around himself. He stayed inside for more than two weeks. Then he nibbled a hole in the…
• One Sunday morning the warm sun came up and - pop! - out of the egg came a tiny and very hungry caterpillar.
• That's something I learned in art school. I studied graphic design in Germany, and my professor emphasized the responsibility that designers and illustrators have towards…

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