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 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
I had lost my sister recently, too, which meant that my whole family was gone. I was the baby of the family.… — Maurice Sendak Copy Share Image
An illustrator in my own mind - and this is not a truth of any kind - is someone who so falls… — 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
![“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/quotes/img-quotes/290/maurice-sendak-1273_eighty_a-whole-new-world-of-italian-music-was-s_1593395.jpg)
