"When Mozart is playing in my room, I……" — Maurice Sendak
"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 a purpose for life, it was for me to hear Mozart."
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146 Quotes by Maurice Sendak
Maurice Sendak has 146 quotes on this site.
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As a child, I felt that books were holy objects, to be caressed, rapturously sniffed, and devotedly provided for. I…
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I would infinitely prefer a daughter.
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I never spent less than two years on the text of one of my picture books, even though each of…
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I'm writing a poem right now about a nose. I've always wanted to write a poem about a nose. But…
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There are so many beautiful things in the world which I will have to leave when I die, but I'm…
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It is a blessing to get old. It is a blessing to find the time to do the things, to…
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Children are tough, though we tend to think of them as fragile. They have to be tough. Childhood is not…
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I believe there is no part of our lives, our adult as well as child life, when we're not fantasizing,…
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I'm totally crazy, I know that. I don't say that to be a smartass, but I know that that's the…
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I don't write for children. I write, and somebody says, 'That's for children.'
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I refuse to cater to the bullshit of innocence.
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As an aspiring artist, you should strive for originality of vision. Have something to say and a fresh way of…
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In the United States all business not transacted over the telephone is accomplished in conjunction with alcohol or food, often…
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The most beautiful thing in the world is, precisely, the conjunction of learning and inspiration. Oh, the passion for research…
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Out of the multitude of our sense experiences we take, mentally and arbitrarily, certain repeatedly occurring complexes of sense impression…
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What I am asserting is that in this particular epoch a conjunction of historical circumstances has led to the rise…
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Auto da Fay reveals the trickles of a creative sensibility that later became a tide, but essentially, Weldon the writer…
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