Quote

As a kid, all I thought about was death. But you can't tell your parents that.

Maurice Sendak

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

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
Parent
Death
Tell
Kids
Thought
Parents

More quotes by Maurice Sendak

Image
From their earliest years children live on familiar terms with disrupting emotions, fear and anxiety are an intrinsic part of their everyday lives, they continually cope with frustrations as best they can. And it is through fantasy that children achieve catharsis. It is the best means they have for taming Wild Things.
Maurice Sendak
Image
I had a brother who was my savior, made my childhood bearable.
Maurice Sendak
Image
Children surviving childhood is my obsessive theme and my life's concern.
Maurice Sendak
Image
I mean, being a child was being a child, was being a creature without power, without pocket money, without escape routes of any kind. So I didn't want to be a child.
Maurice Sendak
Image
I don't know how to write a children's book.
Maurice Sendak
Image
It was a very difficult time. I was working on [umble-Ardy] when my partner and friend was dying of cancer. We set up a room in the house to be like a hospital room. Eugene died, and then I had bypass surgery. I was doing the book to stay sane while all this was going on.
Maurice Sendak
Image
The day after Paul Newman was dead, he was twice as dead.
Maurice Sendak
Image
there is no such thing as fantasy unrelated to reality
Maurice Sendak
Image
I know that if there’s a purpose for life, it was for me to hear Mozart.
Maurice Sendak
Image
Dreams raise the emotional level of what I'm doing at the moment.
Maurice Sendak
Image
The fan mail I get from kids are asking me questions which they do not ask their mothers and fathers. Because if they had, why write to me, a perfect stranger?
Maurice Sendak
Image
It is such an abundance of idiocy that you lose courage. That you lose hope. I don't want to lose hope. I get through every day. I'm pretty good. I work. I sleep. I sing. I walk.
Maurice Sendak
Image
We all want to be renewed, don't we?
Maurice Sendak
Image
I'm not jaded. I never have been jaded. I've always been surprised at my success. I've always enjoyed it.
Maurice Sendak
Image
I had been reading a fabulous book [The Man Verdi, by Frank Walker] about [Giuseppe] Verdi, whom I adore.
Maurice Sendak
Image
Oh, please don't go — we'll eat you up — we love you so!
Maurice Sendak
Image
How do you write for children? I really have never figured that out. So I decided to just ignore it
Maurice Sendak
Image
I wanted to be acknowledged as an artist, not just some kiddie-book artist.
Maurice Sendak
Image
I think there is something barbaric in children, and it's missing in lots of books for them because we don't like to think of it. We want them to be happy [but] childhood is a very tough time.
Maurice Sendak
Image
One of the beauties of being an artist is that you can create a whole new world, with circumstances that are better in your invented world than they are in the real world.
Maurice Sendak