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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…
- That's what art is. You don't make up stories. You live your life.
- I’m not Hans Christian Andersen. Nobody’s gonna make a statue in the park with a lot of scrambling kids climbing up me. I won’t have…
- I grew up in a house that was in a constant state of mourning.
- I have been doodling with ink and watercolor on paper all my life. It's my way of stirring up my imagination to see what I…
- If children are different from us, they are more spontaneous. Grown-up lives have become overlaid with dross.
- 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'd like to believe an accumulation of experience has made me a sort of a grown-up person, so I can have judgment and taste and…
- If life is so critical, if Anne Frank could die, if my friend could die, children were as vulnerable as adults, and that gave me…
- Oh, please don't go—we'll eat you up—we love you so!
- Then from far away across the world he smelled good things to eat, so he gave up being king of the wild things.
- Sendak is in search of what he calls a "yummy death". William Blake set the standard, jumping up from his death bed at the last…
- Grown-ups desperately need to feel safe, and then they project onto the kids. But what none of us seem to realize is how smart kids…
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