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The fan mail I get from kids are asking me questions which they do not ask their mothers and fathers. Because if they had, why write to me, a perfect stranger?
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Maurice Sendak
Age: 83 †
Born: 1928
Born: June 10
Died: 2012
Died: May 8
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I have to accept my role. I will never kill myself like Vincent Van Gogh. Nor will I paint beautiful water lilies like Monet. I can't do that. I'm in the idiot role of being a kiddie book person.
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Mothers and children are human beings, and they will sometimes do the wrong thing.
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To be a healthy person, you have to be sympathetic to the child you once were and maintain the continuity between you as a child and you as an adult.
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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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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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You can start making up any kind of story if you want to.
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I wanted to be acknowledged as an artist, not just some kiddie-book artist.
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What is the point of it all? Not leaving legacies. But being ripe. Being ripe.
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I have been doodling with ink and watercolor on paper all my life. It's my way of stirring up my imagination to see what I find hidden in my head. I call the results dream pictures, fantasy sketches, and even brain-sharpenin g exercises.
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Children surviving childhood is my obsessive theme and my life's concern.
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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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That always seemed to be the most critical test that a child was confronted with - loss of parents, loss of direction, loss of love. Can you live without a mother and a father?
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God, I had great people in my life.
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That's what art is. You don't make up stories. You live your life.
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there is no such thing as fantasy unrelated to reality
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I remember my own childhood vividly...I knew terrible things. But I knew I mustn't let adults know I knew. It would scare them
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We're animals. We're violent. We're criminal. We're not so far away from the gorillas and the apes, those beautiful creatures.
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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 did not know how to paint a mural. I did not know how to prepare the surface. There was nobody from the Renaissance around who could advise me, and I did the best I could.
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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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