Maurice Sendak Quotes & Sayings (Page 4)
Maurice Sendak quotes and sayings page 4 (deceased artist born on Jun 10, 1928). Here's quote # 31 through 40 out of the 109 we have for him.
“To get a child's trust - you may know or not - is a very hard thing to do. They're so used to not believing adults - because adults tell tales and lies all the time.”
“A book is a book is a book.”
“I grew up in a house that was in a constant state of mourning.”
“I want to write something so simple, so short and so silly... and I want it to be for my brother.”
“My father could be very witty, even if the humor was always on the darker side of irony.”
“I'm not Hans Christian Anderson. Nobody's gonna make a statue in the park with a lot of scrambling kids climbing up me. I won't have it, okay?”
“That always seemed to be the most critical test that a child was confronted with - loss of parents, loss of direction, loss of love. Can you live without a mother and a father?”
“I'm scared of watching a TV show about vampires. I can't fall asleep.”
“My work is not great, but it's respectable. I have no false illusions.”
“There's something in this country that is so opposed to understanding the complexity of children.”
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