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.
Children are the best living audience in the world because they are so thoroughly honest. - Maurice Sendak
Children are the best living audience in the world because they are so thoroughly honest.
- Maurice Sendak
Knowledge is the driving force that puts creative passion to work. - Maurice Sendak
Knowledge is the driving force that puts creative passion to work.
I wish you all good things. Live your life, live your life, live your life. - Maurice Sendak
I wish you all good things. Live your life, live your life, live your life.
To be a healthy person, you have to be sympathetic to the child you once were and maintain the continuity between you as a child and you as an adult. - Maurice Sendak
To be a healthy person, you have to be sympathetic to the child you once were and maintain the continuity between you as a child and you as an adult.
Children do live in fantasy and reality; they move back and forth very easily in a way we no longer remember how to do. - Maurice Sendak
Children do live in fantasy and reality; they move back and forth very easily in a way we no longer remember how to do.
A book is really like a lover. It arranges itself in your life in a way that is beautiful. - Maurice Sendak
A book is really like a lover. It arranges itself in your life in a way that is beautiful.
And it is through fantasy that children achieve catharsis. It is the best means they have for taming Wild Things. - Maurice Sendak
And it is through fantasy that children achieve catharsis. It is the best means they have for taming Wild Things.
There's so much more to a book than just the reading. - Maurice Sendak
There's so much more to a book than just the reading.
And the walls became the world all around. - Maurice Sendak
And the walls became the world all around.
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