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- Children are tough, though we tend to think of them as fragile. They have to be tough. Childhood is not easy. We sentimentalize children, but…
- I'm totally crazy, I know that. I don't say that to be a smartass, but I know that that's the very essence of what makes…
- We’ve educated children to think that spontaneity is inappropriate. Children are willing to expose themselves to experiences. We aren’t. Grownups always say they protect their…
- Do parents sit down and tell their kids everything? I don't know. I don't know. I've convinced myself - I hope I'm right - that…
- Herman Melville said that artists have to take a dive and either you hit your head on a rock and you split your skull and…
- I know that if there’s a purpose for life, it was for me to hear Mozart.
- I don't know how to write a children's book.
- I'm totally crazy, I know that.
- Kids don't know about best sellers. They go for what they enjoy. They aren't star chasers and they don't suck up. It's why I like…
- I want to be alone and work until the day my heads hits the drawing table and I'm dead. Kaput. I feel very much like…
- 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…
- I did not know how to paint a mural. I did not know how to prepare the surface. There was nobody from the Renaissance around…
- Most children - I know I did when I was a kid - fantasize another set of parents. Or fantasize no parents. They don't tell…
- 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…
- You know who my gods are, who I believe in fervently? Herman Melville, Emily Dickinson - she's probably the top - Mozart, Shakespeare, Keats. These…
- 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…
- I remember my own childhood vividly...I knew terrible things. But I knew I mustn't let adults know I knew. It would scare them
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