Category: Maurice Sendak

“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.”
-Maurice Sendak

“The distinctions of fine art bore me to death.”
-Maurice Sendak

“In plain terms, a child is a complicated creature who can drive you crazy. There’s a cruelty to childhood, there’s an anger.”
-Maurice Sendak

“I’ve convinced myself – I hope I’m right – that children despair of you if you don’t tell them the truth.”
-Maurice Sendak

“My father could be very witty, even if the humor was always on the darker side of irony.”
-Maurice Sendak

“I’m not afraid of death.”
-Maurice Sendak

“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

“I adored Mickey Mouse when I was a child. He was the emblem of happiness and funniness.”
-Maurice Sendak

“I mean, being a child was being a child, was being a creature without power, without pocket money, without escape routes of any kind. So I didn’t want to be a child.”
-Maurice Sendak

“Girls are infinitely more complicated than boys and women more than men. And there’s no doubt about that. We just don’t like to think about it. Certainly the men don’t like to think about it.”
-Maurice Sendak