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We've educated children to think spontaneity is inappropriate.
Maurice Sendak
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Maurice Sendak
Age: 83 †
Born: 1928
Born: June 10
Died: 2012
Died: May 8
Artist
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Brooklyn
New York
Maurice Bernard Sendak
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I'm totally crazy, I know that. I don't say that to be a smartass, but I know that that's the very essence of what makes my work good. And I know my work is good. Not everybody likes it, that's fine. I don't do it for everybody. Or anybody. I do it because I can't not do it.
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Most children - I know I did when I was a kid - fantasize another set of parents. Or fantasize no parents. They don't tell their real parents about that - you don't want to tell Mom and Dad. Kids lead a very private life. And I was a typical child, I think. I was a liar.
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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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If children are different from us, they are more spontaneous. Grown-up lives have become overlaid with dross.
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As a kid, all I thought about was death. But you can't tell your parents that.
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The day after Paul Newman was dead, he was twice as dead.
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Life has only gotten better personally for me as I've gotten older. I mean, being young was such a gross waste of time. I was just such a miserable, miserable person.
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You can't get rid of evil. We can't, and I feel that so intensely.
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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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God, I had great people in my life.
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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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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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There's a mystery there, a clue, a nut, a bolt, and if I put it together, I find me.
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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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My life in Brooklyn was in constant danger because of my bad health.
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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'm totally crazy, I know that.
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And Max, the king of all wild things, was lonely and wanted to be where someone loved him best of all.
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Emeralds,' said the rabbit. 'Emeralds make a lovely gift.
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