Maurice Sendak Quotes About Purpose

Quotes about: Purpose

• Art has always been my salvation. And my gods are Herman Melville, Emily Dickinson, Mozart. I believe in them with all my heart. And when Mozart is playing in my room, I am in conjunction with something I can’t explain — I don’t need to. I know that if there’s a purpose for life, it was for me to hear Mozart. Or if I walk in the woods and I see an animal, the purpose of my life was to see that animal. I can recollect it, I can notice it. I’m here to take note of. And that is beyond my ego, beyond anything that belongs to me, an observer, an observer.

  Maurice Sendak

  Art, Believe, Animal

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

• If life is so critical, if Anne Frank could die, if my friend could die, children were as vulnerable as adults, and that gave me a secret purpose to my work, to make them live. Because I wanted to live. I wanted to grow up.

  Maurice Sendak

  Children, Growing Up, Secret

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

• When Mozart is playing in my room, I am in conjunction with something I can't explain... I don't need to. I know that if there's a purpose for life, it was for me to hear Mozart.

  Maurice Sendak

  Needs, Purpose, Rooms

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

• I know that if there’s a purpose for life, it was for me to hear Mozart.

  Maurice Sendak

  Purpose, Conjunctions, Wild Things

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

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