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Children surviving childhood is my obsessive theme and my life's concern.
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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Painter
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Brooklyn
New York
Maurice Bernard Sendak
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Childhood
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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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What is the point of it all? Not leaving legacies. But being ripe. Being ripe.
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I cry a lot because I miss people. They die and I can't stop them. They leave me and I love them more.
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You can't get rid of evil. We can't, and I feel that so intensely.
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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.
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There's so much more to a book than just the reading.
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Dreams raise the emotional level of what I'm doing at the moment.
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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 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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Herman Melville said that artists have to take a dive and either you hit your head on a rock and you split your skull and you die … or that blow to the head is so inspiring that you come back and do the best work that you ever did. BUT you have to take the dive and you do not know what the results will be.
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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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I'm not jaded. I never have been jaded. I've always been surprised at my success. I've always enjoyed it.
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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 became a set designer for opera.
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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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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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