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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
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Brooklyn
New York
Maurice Bernard Sendak
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What is the point of it all? Not leaving legacies. But being ripe. Being ripe.
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And it is through fantasy that children achieve catharsis. It is the best means they have for taming Wild Things.
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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.
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We've educated children to think spontaneity is inappropriate.
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The day after Paul Newman was dead, he was twice as dead.
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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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Because love is so enormous, the only thing you can think of doing is swallowing the person that you love entirely.
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Why is my needle stuck in childhood? I don't know why. I guess it's because that's where my heart is.
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To be a healthy person, you have to be sympathetic to the child you once were and maintain the continuity between you as a child and you as an adult.
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Oh, please don't go — we'll eat you up — we love you so!
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I remember my own childhood vividly...I knew terrible things. But I knew I mustn't let adults know I knew. It would scare them
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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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Kids lead a very private life.
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I feel it in me like a woman having a baby, all that life churning inside me. I feel it every day it moves, stretches, yawns. It's getting ready to be born. It knows exactly what it is.
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Mothers and children are human beings, and they will sometimes do the wrong thing.
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Emeralds,' said the rabbit. 'Emeralds make a lovely gift.
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All I wanted was to be straight so my parents could be happy. They never, never, never knew.
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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I have been doodling with ink and watercolor on paper all my life. It's my way of stirring up my imagination to see what I find hidden in my head. I call the results dream pictures, fantasy sketches, and even brain-sharpenin g exercises.
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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.
Maurice Sendak
