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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
Artist
Cartoonist
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Brooklyn
New York
Maurice Bernard Sendak
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More quotes by Maurice Sendak
If you're making it up, make it up good. And then believe in what you made up.
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.
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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.
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Kids don't know about best sellers. They go for what they enjoy. They aren't star chasers and they don't suck up. It's why I like them.
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I stress character, character, character.
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That's what art is. You don't make up stories. You live your life.
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I think people should be given a test much like driver's tests as to whether they're capable of being parents!
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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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Dreams raise the emotional level of what I'm doing at the moment.
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Girls are infinitely more complicated than boys, and women more than men.
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I never can satisfy some need in me to achieve something of incredible hight. For my sake. It puzzles me deeply. And it sours my life. So there is a permanent dissatisfaction.
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I'm scared of watching a TV show about vampires. I can't fall asleep.
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When you hide another story in a story, that’s the story I am telling the children.
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My life in Brooklyn was in constant danger because of my bad health.
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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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And it's one of the sexiest things you will ever read of how slow you should take the peach. Don't rush it.
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'Hansel and Gretel' is one of the scariest stories ever written! Psychotic mother stupid, inane father.
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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.
Maurice Sendak
When Mozart is playing in my room, I am in conjunction with something I can't explain... I don't need to. I know that if there's a purpose for life, it was for me to hear Mozart.
Maurice Sendak
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
