British - Writer | September 11, 1946 -
I never want to make a child worried or afraid, and I don't think I do. My pictures are born from the belief that children are far more capable and aware of social complexities than we give them credit for.
Anthony Browne
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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 was already in the team, and my father had come to watch us. We went home, and my father died in front of me. Horribly, in about half an hour. He had a heart attack.
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I've always felt that I was a bit of an outsider to the British children's-book illustration scene, because I don't work in line and wash.
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As a child, I'd always liked cowboys and Indians stories where there were two layers - gruesome in the foreground but funny in the background.
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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. Then I discovered Salvador Dali, and it was like finding something I already knew.
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I use a little brush only for really small details. Over the years, I've started to use a much larger brush.
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Everyone can draw when they're five. Most of us lose the ability.
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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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Picture books are being marginalised. I get the feeling children are being pushed away from picture books earlier and earlier and being told to look at 'proper' books, which means books without pictures.
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I didn't have picture books - there weren't many around when I was a child.
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Stories come to me and I don't know where they come from, but afterwards I can look back and say, 'Oh yes, that's got a little bit of me, or a little bit of my own son in it'. That's where ideas come from.
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