Maurice Sendak Quotes - Page 5

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• I often went to bed without supper cause I hated my mother's cooking. So, to go to bed without supper was not a torture to me. If she was gonna hurt me, she'd make me eat.

  Maurice Sendak

  Mother, Hurt, Cooking

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• The magic of childhood is the strangeness of childhood — the uniqueness that makes us see things that other people don't see.

  Maurice Sendak

  People, Childhood, Magic

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• Art has always been my salvation.

  Maurice Sendak

  Art, Salvation

  "Now" with Bill Moyers, www.pbs.org. March 12, 2004.

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• A book is really like a lover. It arranges itself in your life in a way that is beautiful. Even as a kid, my sister, who was the eldest, brought books home for me, and I think I spent more time sniffing and touching them than reading. I just remember the joy of the book, the beauty of the binding. The smelling of the interior. Happy.

  Maurice Sendak

  Beautiful, Book, Reading

  "Outside Over There". Interview With Emma Brockes, harpers.org. March 2013.

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• I have this idiot name tag which says 'controversial.'

  Maurice Sendak

  Names, Tag, Idiot

  "Maurice Sendak Sheds Moonlight on a Dark Tale" by Sarah Lyall, www.nytimes.com. September 20, 1993.

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• I don't believe in things literally for children. That's a reduction.

  Maurice Sendak

  Children, Believe, Reduction

  "Sendak Is Forming Company for National Children's Theater" by Eleanor Blau, www.nytimes.com. October 25, 1990.

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• Childhood is a tricky business. Usually, something goes wrong.

  Maurice Sendak

  Childhood, Tricky

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• If children are different from us, they are more spontaneous. Grown-up lives have become overlaid with dross.

  Maurice Sendak

  Children, Different, Spontaneity

  "The Paternal Pride of Maurice Sendak" by Bernard Holland, www.nytimes.com. November 8, 1987.

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• I want to be alone and work until the day my heads hits the drawing table and I'm dead. Kaput. I feel very much like I want to be with my brother and sister again. They're nowhere. I know they're nowhere and they don't exist, but if nowhere means that's where they are, that's where I want to be.

  Maurice Sendak

  Brother, Mean, Drawing

  "Maurice Sendak's dark visions delighted generations of children" by Esther Addley, www.theguardian.com. May 8, 2012.

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• Illustrations have as much to say as the text. The trick is to say the same thing, but in a different way. It's no good being an illustrator who is saying a lot that is on his or her mind, if it has nothing to do with the text. . . the artist must override the story, but he must also override his own ego for the sake of the story.

  Maurice Sendak

  Artist, Illustration, Ego

  "Sendak at 50" by Selma G. Lanes, www.nytimes.com. April 29, 1979.

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• William Blake really is important, my cornerstone. Nobody ever told me before he did that childhood was such a damned serious business.

  Maurice Sendak

  Childhood, Important, Serious Business

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• I stress character, character, character.

  Maurice Sendak

  Stress, Character

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• Oh, I adored Mickey Mouse when I was a child. He was the emblem of happiness and funniness. You went to the movies then, you saw two movies and a short. When Mickey Mouse came on the screen and there was his big head, my sister said she had to hold onto me. I went berserk.

  Maurice Sendak

  Movie, Children, Two

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• Childhood is cannibals and psychotics vomiting in your mouth!

  Maurice Sendak

  Childhood, Vomiting, Mouths

  "In the Dumps", www.newyorker.com. September 27, 1993.

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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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  Dream, Exercise, Imagination

  "Graeme Base adds music to his magical illustrations", www.cnn.com. September 1, 1999.

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• I became a set designer for opera.

  Maurice Sendak

  Opera, Designer

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• I grew up in a house that was in a constant state of mourning.

  Maurice Sendak

  House, Mourning, Grew Up

  "'Where the Wild Things Are:' The Psychology Behind Maurice Sendak's Classic" by Mikaela Conley, abcnews.go.com. May 8, 2012.

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• The day after Paul Newman was dead, he was twice as dead.

  Maurice Sendak

  Newman

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• Each month is gay, Each season nice, When eating Chicken soup With rice

  Maurice Sendak

  Nice, Gay, Each Month

  Maurice Sendak (1991). “Chicken Soup with Rice: A Book of Months”, Harper Collins

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• Sipping once, sipping twice, sipping chicken soup with rice.

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  Soup, Chickens, Rice

  Chicken Soup with Rice: A Book of Months (1962)

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• My life in Brooklyn was in constant danger because of my bad health.

  Maurice Sendak

  Brooklyn, Danger, Bad Health

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• Parents shouldn't assume children are made out of sugar candy and will break and collapse instantly. Kids don't. We do.

  Maurice Sendak

  Children, Kids, Parent

  "Remembering Maurice Sendak and the Wild Things" by Anita Voelker, www.foxnews.com. May 8, 2012.

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• There are certain pieces of music that are always attached to certain books.

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  Book, Pieces, Certain

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• When I did 'Bumble-ardy,' I was so intensely aware of death. Eugene, my friend and partner, was dying here in the house when I did 'Bumble-ardy'. I did 'Bumble-ardy' to save myself. I did not want to die with him. I wanted to live, as any human being does.

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  House, Dying, Doe

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• There's something in this country that is so opposed to understanding the complexity of children.

  Maurice Sendak

  Country, Children, Understanding

  "Something We Saw Online: Sendak, Remembered" by Mark Mikin, www.esquire.com. May 8, 2012.

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