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I'm totally crazy, I know that.

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Maurice Sendak
Age: 83 †
Born: 1928
Born: June 10
Died: 2012
Died: May 8
Artist
Cartoonist
Graphic Designer
Illustrator
Painter
Screenwriter
Writer
Brooklyn
New York
Maurice Bernard Sendak
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Crazy

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I became a set designer for opera. I'm a great opera buff, I love classical music, and I needed a time-out.
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I'm not jaded. I never have been jaded. I've always been surprised at my success. I've always enjoyed it.
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That always seemed to be the most critical test that a child was confronted with - loss of parents, loss of direction, loss of love. Can you live without a mother and a father?
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Herman Melville said that artists have to take a dive and either you hit your head on a rock and you split your skull and you die … or that blow to the head is so inspiring that you come back and do the best work that you ever did. BUT you have to take the dive and you do not know what the results will be.
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I had a brother who was my savior, made my childhood bearable.
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I think people should be given a test much like driver's tests as to whether they're capable of being parents!
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I have to accept my role. I will never kill myself like Vincent Van Gogh. Nor will I paint beautiful water lilies like Monet. I can't do that. I'm in the idiot role of being a kiddie book person.
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We all want to be renewed, don't we?
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There are so many beautiful things in the world which I will have to leave when I die, but I'm ready, I'm ready, I'm ready.
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Kids don't know about best sellers. They go for what they enjoy. They aren't star chasers and they don't suck up. It's why I like them.
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Emeralds,' said the rabbit. 'Emeralds make a lovely gift.
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That's what art is. You don't make up stories. You live your life.
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I wish you all good things. Live your life, live your life, live your life.
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We're animals. We're violent. We're criminal. We're not so far away from the gorillas and the apes, those beautiful creatures.
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As an aspiring artist, you should strive for originality of vision. Have something to say and a fresh way of saying it. No story is worth the writing, no picture worth the making, if it’s not the work of the imagination.
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I wanted to be acknowledged as an artist, not just some kiddie-book artist.
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There's so much more to a book than just the reading.
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I never set out to write books for children. I don't have a feeling that I'm gonna save children or my life is devoted.
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In plain terms, a child is a complicated creature who can drive you crazy. There's a cruelty to childhood, there's an anger.
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