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Venturing back further, learning is so slow. Accomplishment is so slow. Experiencing and evaluating your experience is so slow.

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Maurice Sendak
Age: 83 †
Born: 1928
Born: June 10
Died: 2012
Died: May 8
Artist
Cartoonist
Graphic Designer
Illustrator
Painter
Screenwriter
Writer
Brooklyn
New York
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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I believe there is no part of our lives, our adult as well as child life, when we're not fantasizing, but we prefer to relegate fantasy to children, as though it were some tomfoolery only fit for the immature minds of the young. Children do live in fantasy and reality they move back and forth very easily in a way we no longer remember how to do.
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I became a set designer for opera.
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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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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 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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I have this idiot name tag which says 'controversial.'
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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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You can start making up any kind of story if you want to.
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The day after Paul Newman was dead, he was twice as dead.
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there is no such thing as fantasy unrelated to reality
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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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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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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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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 hate those e-books. They can not be the future... they may well be... I will be dead.
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I've always loved pigs: the shape of them, the look of them, and the fact that they are so intelligent.
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Mothers and children are human beings, and they will sometimes do the wrong thing.
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That's what art is. You don't make up stories. You live your life.
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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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