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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
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Graphic Designer
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Brooklyn
New York
Maurice Bernard Sendak
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More quotes by Maurice Sendak
There are certain pieces of music that are always attached to certain books.
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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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My father belonged to a Jewish social club.
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As a kid, all I thought about was death. But you can't tell your parents that.
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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 know there are supposedly happy people in this world. I never believed it, but I take it for granted. God knows, they're all on television.
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And the walls became the world all around.
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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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My father could be very witty, even if the humor was always on the darker side of irony.
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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.
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I did not know how to paint a mural. I did not know how to prepare the surface. There was nobody from the Renaissance around who could advise me, and I did the best I could.
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I want to write something so simple, so short and so silly... and I want it to be for my brother.
Maurice Sendak
You know who my gods are, who I believe in fervently? Herman Melville, Emily Dickinson - she's probably the top - Mozart, Shakespeare, Keats. These are wonderful gods who have gotten me through the narrow straits of life.
Maurice Sendak
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
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
Parents shouldn't assume children are made out of sugar candy and will break and collapse instantly. Kids don't. We do.
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It was inconceivable to me as a child that I would be an adult. I mean, one assumed that it would happen, but obviously it didn't happen, or if it did, it happened when your back was turned, and then suddenly you were there. So I couldn't have thought about it much.
Maurice Sendak
Why is my needle stuck in childhood? I don't know why. I guess it's because that's where my heart is.
Maurice Sendak
The day after Paul Newman was dead, he was twice as dead.
Maurice Sendak
I do not remember any proper children's books in my childhood. I was not exposed to them.
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