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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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Maurice Bernard Sendak
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I hate those e-books. They can not be the future... they may well be... I will be dead.
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I wanted my wild things to be frightening.
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You can start making up any kind of story if you want to.
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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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Dreams raise the emotional level of what I'm doing at the moment.
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I never set out to write books for children. I don't have a feeling that I'm gonna save children or my life is devoted.
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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.
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If you're making it up, make it up good. And then believe in what you made up.
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All I wanted was to be straight so my parents could be happy. They never, never, never knew.
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Girls are infinitely more complicated than boys, and women more than men.
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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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Children surviving childhood is my obsessive theme and my life's concern.
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Venturing back further, learning is so slow. Accomplishment is so slow. Experiencing and evaluating your experience is so slow.
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