Maurice Sendak Quotes - Page 7

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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.

  Maurice Sendak

  Renaissance, Paint, Surface

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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.

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  Movie, Children, Two

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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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• I would infinitely prefer a daughter.

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  Mother Daughter, Daughter, Mother

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

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• Childhood is cannibals and psychotics vomiting in your mouth!

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  Childhood, Vomiting, Mouths

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

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• Sendak is in search of what he calls a "yummy death". William Blake set the standard, jumping up from his death bed at the last minute to start singing. "A happy death," says Sendak. "It can be done." He lifts his eyebrows to two peaks. "If you're William Blake and totally crazy.

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  Crazy, Yummy, Jumping

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

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

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  Newman

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• Most children - I know I did when I was a kid - fantasize another set of parents. Or fantasize no parents. They don't tell their real parents about that - you don't want to tell Mom and Dad. Kids lead a very private life. And I was a typical child, I think. I was a liar.

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  Mom, Children, Dad

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• I wanted my wild things to be frightening.

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  Wild Things, Wanted, Frightening

  "The Art of Maurice Sendak". Book by Selma G. Lanes, 1980.

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• I am not a religious person, nor do I have any regrets. The war took care of that for me. You know, I was brought up strictly kosher, but I - it made no sense to me. It made no sense to me what was happening. So nothing of it means anything to me. Nothing. Except these few little trivial things that are related to being Jewish. ... You know who my gods are, who I believe in fervently? Herman Melville, Emily Dickinson - she's probably the top - Mozart, Shakespeare, Keats. These are wonderful gods who have gotten me through the narrow straits of life.

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  Religious, Regret, War

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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.

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  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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• I stress character, character, character.

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  Stress, Character

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• We're animals. We're violent.

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  Animal, Violent

  "Maurice Sendak: 'Where the Wild Things Are'". "NOW" with Bill Moyers, www.pbs.org. March 12, 2004.

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• I'm gay. I just didn't think it was anybody's business.

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  Gay, Thinking

  "Concerns Beyond Just Where the Wild Things Are" by Patricia Cohen, www.nytimes.com. September 9, 2008.

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• You can't get rid of evil. We can't, and I feel that so intensely.

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  Evil, Feels

  "Maurice Sendak: 'Where the Wild Things Are'". "NOW" with Bill Moyers, www.pbs.org. March 12, 2004.

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• I'm writing a poem right now about a nose. I've always wanted to write a poem about a nose. But it's a ludicrous subject. That's why, when I was younger, I was afraid of [writing] something that didn't make a lot of sense. But now I'm not. I have nothing to worry about. It doesn't matter.

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  Writing, Worry, Noses

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

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

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  Childhood, Tricky

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• I think that if in your heart, you are seeking out a real puzzle, and you're not looking to frighten anybody, you're not looking to upset anybody, and you're looking to discuss a subject that you yourself went through when you were nine - you just don't remember the difficulties of one's own childhood.

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  Real, Heart, Thinking

  Source: www.dazeddigital.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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• [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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• 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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• 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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• All I liked to do when I was a kid was draw. My childhood was like my adult life: drawing pictures with my brother, putting the comics up on the glass window, and tracing the characters onto tracing paper or drawing paper and then coloring them. That and making things was all we ever did.

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  Brother, Character, Kids

  Source: www.hbook.com

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