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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.
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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Children are tough, though we tend to think of them as fragile. They have to be tough. Childhood is not easy. We sentimentalize children, but they know what's real and what's not. They understand metaphor and symbol. If children are different from us, they are more spontaneous. Grown-up lives have become overlaid with dross.
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That's what art is. You don't make up stories. You live your life.
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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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There's a mystery there, a clue, a nut, a bolt, and if I put it together, I find me.
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Bumble-Ardy is a very wicked little child as far as I'm concerned. He's not to be trusted.
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In plain terms, a child is a complicated creature who can drive you crazy. There's a cruelty to childhood, there's an anger.
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Emeralds,' said the rabbit. 'Emeralds make a lovely gift.
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If life is so critical, if Anne Frank could die, if my friend could die, children were as vulnerable as adults, and that gave me a secret purpose to my work, to make them live. Because I wanted to live. I wanted to grow up.
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What is the point of it all? Not leaving legacies. But being ripe. Being ripe.
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I'm totally crazy, I know that.
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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'm getting old. And I'm disappointed in everything just the way old people traditionally, boringly are. That bothers me because is it too traditional? Am I not fighting hard enough? I don't feel the fight. I don't feel it.
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And it is through fantasy that children achieve catharsis. It is the best means they have for taming Wild Things.
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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.
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The day after Paul Newman was dead, he was twice as dead.
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I do not remember any proper children's books in my childhood. I was not exposed to them.
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I became a set designer for opera. I'm a great opera buff, I love classical music, and I needed a time-out.
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A whole new world of Italian music was springing up, and [Giuseppe] Verdi was seen as old. Boito got Verdi all excited about the possibility of doing another opera, another kind of opera. In fact, Verdi composed his two best operas, Otello and Falstaff, in his eighties.
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My father belonged to a Jewish social club.
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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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