American - Author | June 18, 1949 -
They don't send people from large corporations to hire people to make sculptures.
Chris Van Allsburg
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The theory of isolation of certain tasks in certain hemispheres of the brain suggests I shouldn't even be able to speak, never mind write.
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As long as I can remember, I've always loved to draw. But my interest in drawing wasn't encouraged very much.
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People have asked me a lot, 'What comes first? The pictures or the story? The story or the picture?' It's hard to describe because often they seem to come at the same time. I'm seeing images while I'm thinking of the story.
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I've always thought of the book as a visual art form, and it should represent a single artistic idea, which it does if you write your own material.
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I don't know if what kids really want is a hamster. What they want is a dog. So the hamster ends up being a substitute: 'Well, would you accept this?'
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Peter Rabbit's not a rabbit. Peter Rabbit is a proxy for the child who reads the book, and they imagine themselves in the rabbit's position.
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I think it's difficult to forget things that are unresolved.
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In the same way that a mundane object can have a personality somehow, I try to suggest that a mundane setting can have some menace behind it.
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Your house is all about routine, not the unexpected events of your life.
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I like the gizmos that transport people.
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When somebody says, 'This must be a children's book,' basically they're saying, 'You must be a child.' And so my answer is, 'Well, yes, I guess I am a child.' But I don't think of myself that way.
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