I want to be free again. I want to be free like when I was a kid, working with my brother and making toy airplanes and a whole model of the World's Fair in 1939 out of wax. Maurice Sendak More Quotes by Maurice Sendak More Quotes From Maurice Sendak I don't believe in an afterlife but I still fully expect to see my brother again. Maurice Sendak afterlife brother believe I became a set designer for opera. Maurice Sendak opera designer 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. Maurice Sendak years art thinking 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 drawing brother mean 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 growing-up secret children Childhood is a tricky business. Usually, something goes wrong. Maurice Sendak tricky childhood I don't know how to write a children's book. Maurice Sendak writing book children I stress character, character, character. Maurice Sendak stress character I do not remember any proper children's books in my childhood. I was not exposed to them. Maurice Sendak childhood book children I wanted to be acknowledged as an artist, not just some kiddie-book artist. Maurice Sendak artist wanted book 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 purpose rooms needs Sipping once, sipping twice, sipping chicken soup with rice. Maurice Sendak rice chickens soup Inside all of us is... hope. Inside all of us is... fear. Inside all of us is... adventure. Inside all of us is a wild thing. Maurice Sendak wild-things adventure I know that if there’s a purpose for life, it was for me to hear Mozart. Maurice Sendak conjunctions wild-things purpose The magic of childhood is the strangeness of childhood — the uniqueness that makes us see things that other people don't see. Maurice Sendak childhood magic people I don't believe in things literally for children. That's a reduction. Maurice Sendak reduction believe children Emeralds,' said the rabbit. 'Emeralds make a lovely gift. Maurice Sendak emeralds lovely rabbits Art has always been my salvation. Maurice Sendak salvation art Because love is so enormous, the only thing you can think of doing is swallowing the person that you love entirely. Maurice Sendak swallowing love-is thinking 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. Maurice Sendak imagination dream exercise
