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I wanted to be acknowledged as an artist, not just some kiddie-book artist.

Maurice Sendak

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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
Kiddie
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I often went to bed without supper cause I hated my mother's cooking. So, to go to bed without supper was not a torture to me. If she was gonna hurt me, she'd make me eat.
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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.
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I'm writing a poem right now about a nose. I've always wanted to write a poem about a nose. But it's a ludicrous subject. That's why, when I was younger, I was afraid of [writing] something that didn't make a lot of sense. But now I'm not. I have nothing to worry about. It doesn't matter.
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That's what art is. You don't make up stories. You live your life.
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Dreams raise the emotional level of what I'm doing at the moment.
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And Max, the king of all wild things, was lonely and wanted to be where someone loved him best of all.
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You can't get rid of evil. We can't, and I feel that so intensely.
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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.
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What is the point of it all? Not leaving legacies. But being ripe. Being ripe.
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And the walls became the world all around.
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One of the few graces of getting old - and God knows there are few graces - is that if you've worked hard and kept your nose to the grindstone, something happens: The body gets old but the creative mechanism is refreshed, smoothed and oiled and honed. That is the grace. That is what's happening to me.
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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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Kids never get pissed at their parents. Unheard of.
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We've educated children to think spontaneity is inappropriate.
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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.
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Kids lead a very private life.
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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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