Maurice Sendak Quotes
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My life in Brooklyn was in constant danger because of my bad health.
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My father belonged to a Jewish social club.
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We've educated children to think that spontaneity is inappropriate. Children are willing to expose themselves to experiences. We aren't. Grownups always say they protect their children, but they're really protecting themselves. Besides, you can't protect children. They know everything.
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We were the 'chosen people,' chosen to be killed?
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I wasn't gonna paint. And I wasn't gonna do ostentatious drawings. I wasn't gonna have gallery pictures. I was gonna hide somewhere where nobody would find me and express myself entirely. I'm like a guerrilla warfare in my best books.
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You can't get rid of evil. We can't, and I feel that so intensely. All the idiots that keep coming into the world and wrecking people's lives. And it is such an abundance of idiocy that you lose courage, okay? That you lose hope - I don't want to lose hope. I get through every day - I'm pretty good - I work. I sleep. I sing. I walk. But, I'm losing hope.
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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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I wanted to be acknowledged as an artist, not just some kiddie-book artist.
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Newt Gingrich is an idiot of great renown... There's something so hopelessly gross and vile about him it's hard to take him seriously.
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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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Parents shouldn't assume children are made out of sugar candy and will break and collapse instantly.
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The distinctions of fine art bore me to death.
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I remember how much - when I was a small boy I was taken to see a version of 'Peter Pan.' I detested it. I mean, the sentimental idea that anybody would want to remain a boy.
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Please don't go. We'll eat you up. We love you so.
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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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Parents shouldn't assume children are made out of sugar candy and will break and collapse instantly. Kids don't. We do.
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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 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.
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There's so much more to a book than just the reading.
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I'm an illustrator. I have to accept my role.
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What I do as best I can is out of a deep respect for children, for how difficult their world is.
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'And now,' cried Max, 'let the wild rumpus start!'
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I'd like to believe an accumulation of experience has made me a sort of a grown-up person, so I can have judgment and taste and whatever.
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My work is not great, but it's respectable. I have no false illusions.