Quotes by Eric Carle - Page 1

The hardest part is developing the idea, and that can take years.
Eric Carle / Children's Book Illustrator
Developing
Hardest
Hardest Part
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Simplify, slow down, be kind. And don't forget to have art in your life - music, paintings, theater, dance, and sunsets.
Eric Carle / Children's Book Illustrator
Life
Smile
Be Kind
Sunset
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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 beautiful, tasteful, appealing, and important.
Eric Carle / Children's Book Illustrator
Touch
All Day
Appealing
Time Beautiful Long
Eyes
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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 is. And I have a certain distance now. I've done it such a long time ago.
Eric Carle / Children's Book Illustrator
Distance
Long Time Ago
Sinking
Time Me Long
Time Done Long
Such A Long Time
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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 the people they create things for.
Eric Carle / Children's Book Illustrator
Design
Art School
Germany
Graphic
Graphic Design
Studied
Designers
Emphasized
Towards
Professor
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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 and you wind up with a 200,000 word novel. We, picture-book people, or at least I, start out with 200,000 words and I reduce it to 20.
Eric Carle / Children's Book Illustrator
Novel
Wind
Reduce
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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 on - and I swing between that a lot. Some days I'm very happy with what I'm doing, and the next day I am desperate - it's not working out!
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Desperate
One Day
Swing
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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 very hard for me to understand often, and I developed a knack, I think. I developed a process to simplify things so I would understand them.
Eric Carle / Children's Book Illustrator
Process
Simple
Simplify
Life Me Process
Life Me Simple
Admit
All My Life
Developed
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