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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.
Maurice Sendak
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Maurice Sendak
Age: 83 †
Born: 1928
Born: June 10
Died: 2012
Died: May 8
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What is the point of it all? Not leaving legacies. But being ripe. Being ripe.
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Children surviving childhood is my obsessive theme and my life's concern.
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There's so much more to a book than just the reading.
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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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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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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.
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'Hansel and Gretel' is one of the scariest stories ever written! Psychotic mother stupid, inane father.
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Kids never get pissed at their parents. Unheard of.
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I write books that seem more suitable for children, and that's OK with me. They are a better audience and tougher critics. Kids tell you what they think, not what they think they should think.
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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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There's a mystery there, a clue, a nut, a bolt, and if I put it together, I find me.
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I stress character, character, character.
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I've always loved pigs: the shape of them, the look of them, and the fact that they are so intelligent.
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The day after Paul Newman was dead, he was twice as dead.
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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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