Then from far away across the world he smelled good things to eat, so he gave up being king of the wild… — Maurice Sendak Copy Share Image
Children are the best living audience in the world because they are so thoroughly honest. — Maurice Sendak Copy Share Image
There are so many beautiful things in the world which I will have to leave when I die, but I'm ready, I'm… — Maurice Sendak Copy Share Image
What I do as best I can is out of a deep respect for children, for how difficult their world is. — Maurice Sendak Copy Share Image
I know there are supposedly happy people in this world. I never believed it, but I take it for granted. God knows,… — Maurice Sendak Copy Share Image
I want to be free again. I want to be free like when I was a kid, working with my brother and… — Maurice Sendak Copy Share Image
[Drawing] and making things was all we ever did. My brother and I built the entire New York World's Fair of 1939… — Maurice Sendak Copy Share Image
One of the beauties of being an artist is that you can create a whole new world, with circumstances that are better… — Maurice Sendak Copy Share Image
A whole new world of Italian music was springing up, and [Giuseppe] Verdi was seen as old. Boito got Verdi all excited… — Maurice Sendak Copy Share Image
I never thought of Bumble-Ardy in that way. But I still have that same deep feeling for children who are in dire… — Maurice Sendak Copy Share Image
Then one day my sister abandoned me at the 1939 World's Fair, and that incident is the essence of In the Night… — Maurice Sendak Copy Share Image
I never thought of Bumble-Ardy in that way. But I still have that same deep feeling for children who are in dire trouble. I… — Maurice Sendak Copy Share
I was a very sickly child. My parents were immigrants. They were not decorous. They were not discreet. They always thought I was gonna… — Maurice Sendak Copy Share
The fan mail I get from kids are asking me questions which they do not ask their mothers and fathers. Because if they had,… — Maurice Sendak Copy Share
“May I ask what you have in your black leather bag with gold buckles?" "Everything." They were climbing a narrow staircase. Rhoda stopped to… — Maurice Sendak Copy Share
Illustrations have as much to say as the text. The trick is to say the same thing, but in a different way. It's no… — Maurice Sendak Copy Share
I've convinced myself - I hope I'm right - that children despair of you if you don't tell them the truth. — Maurice Sendak Copy Share
You cannot write for children They're much too complicated. You can only write books that are of interest to them. — Maurice Sendak Copy Share
![“[Drawing] and making things was all we ever did. My brother and I built the entire New York World's Fair of 1939 in miniature out of wax. The floor of our room was covered with little waxen buildings. Nobody else could come in.” quote by Maurice Sendak](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/72b/maurice-sendak-1273_brother_drawing-and-making-things-was-all-we-eve_1540332.jpg)
![“A whole new world of Italian music was springing up, and [Giuseppe] Verdi was seen as old. Boito got Verdi all excited about the possibility of doing another opera, another kind of opera. In fact, Verdi composed his two best operas, Otello and Falstaff, in his eighties.” quote by Maurice Sendak](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/290/maurice-sendak-1273_eighty_a-whole-new-world-of-italian-music-was-s_1593395.jpg)
