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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 don't write for children. I write, and somebody says, 'That's for children.'
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Children do live in fantasy and reality they move back and forth very easily in a way we no longer remember how to do.
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Kids lead a very private life.
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Girls are infinitely more complicated than boys, and women more than men.
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That's what art is. You don't make up stories. You live your life.
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It was a very difficult time. I was working on [umble-Ardy] when my partner and friend was dying of cancer. We set up a room in the house to be like a hospital room. Eugene died, and then I had bypass surgery. I was doing the book to stay sane while all this was going on.
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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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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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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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Thank God that Bumble-Ardy's parents are dead so we don't have to wonder what they did to him. We only know that they were famous, and famous people have unhappy children for the most part. They don't have the time to take care of them. So he's a troubled pig-boy, a kid you've got to watch.
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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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Inside all of us is... hope. Inside all of us is... fear. Inside all of us is... adventure. Inside all of us is a wild thing.
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What is the point of it all? Not leaving legacies. But being ripe. Being ripe.
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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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I don't believe in an afterlife but I still fully expect to see my brother again.
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I want to be free again. I want to be free like when I was a kid, working with my brother and making toy airplanes and a whole model of the World's Fair in 1939 out of wax.
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I don't know how to write a children's book.
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And the walls became the world all around.
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Oh, please don't go — we'll eat you up — we love you so!
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I’m not Hans Christian Andersen. Nobody’s gonna make a statue in the park with a lot of scrambling kids climbing up me. I won’t have it, okay?
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