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Quotes from NOW interview — Maurice Sendak

1928–2012 United States

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13 quotes

Scares the bejesus out of people and makes them hate him. Because he's so [[good.]

NOW interview (2004)

I want to see me to the end working, living for myself. "Ripeness is all." Now, interpreting what ripeness is our own individual problem.

NOW interview (2004)

In other words, you must not waste a second of this deliciousness which for him was life and being a great poet. That you savor every, everything that happened. I want to get ripe.

NOW interview (2004)

And it's one of the sexiest things you will ever read of how slow you should take the peach. Don't rush it.

NOW interview (2004)

Herman Melville is a god. … I cherish what he did. He was a genius.

NOW interview (2004)

You can't get rid of evil. We can't, and I feel that so intensely. All the idiots that keep coming into the world and wrecking people's lives.

NOW interview (2004)

I'm here to take note of. And that is beyond my ego, beyond anything that belongs to me, an observer, an observer.

NOW interview (2004)

Art has always been my salvation.

NOW interview (2004)

My big concern is me and what do I do now until the time of my death. That is valid. That is useful. That is beautiful. That is creative. And also, I want to be free again.

NOW interview (2004)

Hitler made a film about "Hitler gives a camp to the Jews". And they look all shiny. And they're drawing. And they're playing volleyball. And people are dancing. And people are having a wonderful time. And everybody fell for it.

NOW interview (2004)

I was talking about kids I knew and me.

NOW interview (2004)

I'm telling what it was like for me. And I know it was not unique for me.

NOW interview (2004)

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 it, okay?

NOW interview (2004)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Maurice Sendak (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.