Maurice Sendak Quotes - Page 7

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

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  Children, Different, Spontaneity

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

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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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  Beautiful, Book, Water Lily

  The Believer interview, www.believermag.com. November/December 2012.

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

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  Nice, Gay, Each Month

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

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• I mean, being a child was being a child, was being a creature without power, without pocket money, without escape routes of any kind. So I didn't want to be a child.

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  Children, Mean, Pockets

  "'Fresh Air' Remembers Author Maurice Sendak". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, kut.org. June 10, 2015.

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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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  Brother, Believe, Afterlife

  "Maurice Sendak: On Life, Death And Children's Lit". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. December 29, 2011.

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• I think people should be given a test much like driver's tests as to whether they're capable of being parents! It's an art form. I talk a lot. And I think a lot. And I draw a lot. But never in a million years would I have been a parent. That's just work that's too hard.

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  Art, Thinking, Years

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• I'm totally crazy, I know that.

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  Crazy, Knows

  Interview with Emma Brockes, www.believermag.com. November/December 2012.

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• I think people should be given a test much like driver's tests as to whether they're capable of being parents!

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  Thinking, People, Parent

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

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  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 feel it in me like a woman having a baby, all that life churning inside me. I feel it every day; it moves, stretches, yawns. It's getting ready to be born. It knows exactly what it is.

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  Baby, Moving, Born

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• Dreams raise the emotional level of what I'm doing at the moment.

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  Dream, Emotional, Levels

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• I adored Mickey Mouse when I was a child. He was the emblem of happiness and funniness.

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  Children, Mickey, Emblems

  "Bonus Material From Our Exclusive 'Where The Wild Things Are' Roundtable". Interview With Ramin Setoodeh, www.newsweek.com. October 9, 2009.

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• It's no fun being lonely.

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  Lonely, Fun, Being Lonely

  "Maurice Sendak: 'I refuse to lie to children'". Interview with Emma Brockes, www.theguardian.com. October 2, 2011.

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• 'Hansel and Gretel' is one of the scariest stories ever written! Psychotic mother; stupid, inane father.

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  Mother, Father, Stupid

  "Bonus Material From Our Exclusive 'Where The Wild Things Are' Roundtable". Interview With Andrew Romano, www.newsweek.com. October 9, 2009.

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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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  Kids, Parent

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• [Drawing] and making things was all we ever did. My brother and I built the entire New York World's Fair of 1939 in miniature out of wax. The floor of our room was covered with little waxen buildings. Nobody else could come in.

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  Brother, New York, Drawing

  Source: www.hbook.com

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• My brother, who was older, was the gifted one, much more talented than I.

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  Brother, My Brother, Gifted

  Source: www.hbook.com

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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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  Mother, Father, Writing

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• My sister had her own room. She also had innumerable boyfriends. I had a yo-yo collection that was beyond belief, and the reason I had it was mostly that I would stand in the doorway of the living room watching her and her boyfriend. Finally she caught on how to get this kid out of the way. Give him a yo-yo!

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  Kids, Giving, Doorways

  Source: www.hbook.com

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• Then one day my sister abandoned me at the 1939 World's Fair, and that incident is the essence of In the Night Kitchen. I was standing there with hundreds of other people waving back at the little midgets dressed like bakers when I turned around and my sister was gone! The next thing I know I'm screaming and crying and policemen are taking me to a big place with tons of kids who had all been abandoned like me. At least I was old enough to give them a name and an address.

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  Kids, Night, Essence

  Source: www.hbook.com

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• Bumble-Ardy looks like a happy book. That's the funniest thing about it. But this was survival. I was working very hard to survive.

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  Book, Working Very Hard, Survival

  Source: www.hbook.com

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• I really don't like the city anymore. You get pushed and harassed and people grope you. It's too tumultuous. It's too crazy.

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  Crazy, Cities, People

  "Outside Over There". Interview with Emma Brockes, harpers.org. November/December 2012.

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