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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

Topics: All Day Appealing Beautiful Day Eyes Important Just Long Looking Our Should Stuff Tasteful Think Time Touch Whatever

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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!

~Eric Carle

Topics: Am Between Day Days Desperate Doing Ever Greatest Happy Idea Lot Next One Day Out Some Swing Think Very Worked Working Worst I Think I Am

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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

Topics: Idea Least Novel Novelist Out People Put Reduce Start Think Up Way Wind Word Words Work You I Think

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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

Topics: Art Art School Create Design Designers Emphasized Germany Graphic Graphic Design Learned People Professor Responsibility School Something Studied Things Towards

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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

Topics: Admit All My Life Child Developed Hard Knack Life Me My Life Often Process School Simple Simplify Them Things Think Try Understand Very Were Would I Think

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The hardest part is developing the idea, and that can take years.

~Eric Carle

Topics: Developing Hardest Hardest Part Idea Part Take Years

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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

Topics: Book Certain Distance Done How Important Know Long Long Time Long Time Ago Me Now Realize Sinking Such A Long Time Taken Time You

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Author

Born: June 25th, 1929

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