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Maurice Sendak
“so that it isn't upsetting to anybody. It's something we've always known about fairy tales – they talk about incest, the Oedipus complex, about psychotic mothers, like those of Snow White and Hansel and Gretel, who throw their children out. They tell things about life which children know instinctively, and the pleasure and relief lie in finding these things expressed in language that children can live with. You can't eradicate these feelings – they exist and they're a great source of creative inspiration.”
Maurice Sendak

Maurice Sendak
“Messages are the death of an honest literary transaction with children”
Maurice Sendak in William Zinsser's book of essays

Maurice Sendak
“Artistic style is only a means to an end, and the more styles you have, the better. To get trapped in a style is to lose all flexibility. If you have only one style, then you’re going to do the same book over and over, which is pretty dull. Lots of styles permit you to walk in and out of books. So, develop a fine style, a fat style, and fairly slim style, and a really rough style.

As an aspiring artist, you should strive for originality of vision. Have something to say and a fresh way of saying it. No story is worth the writing, no picture worth the making, if it’s not the work of the imagination.”
Maurice Sendak

Maurice Sendak
“I refuse to lie to children. I refuse to cater to the bullshit of innocence.”
Maurice Sendak

Maurice Sendak
“Childhood is a tricky business. Usually something goes wrong.”
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