Maurice Sendak: Cytaty po angielsku
Acceptance speech upon being awarded the Caldecott Medal for Where the Wild Things Are (1964), published in Newbery and Caldecott Medal Books, 1956-65, edited by Lee Kingman (1965)
Kontekst: Certainly we want to protect our children from new and painful experiences that are beyond their emotional comprehension and that intensify anxiety; and to a point we can prevent premature exposure to such experiences. That is obvious. But what is just as obvious — and what is too often overlooked — is the fact that from their earliest years children live on familiar terms with disrupting emotions, fear and anxiety are an intrinsic part of their everyday lives, they continually cope with frustrations as best they can. And it is through fantasy that children achieve catharsis. It is the best means they have for taming Wild Things.
As quoted in Questions to an Artist Who Is Also an Author : A Conversation between Maurice Sendak and Virginia Haviland (1972) by Virginia Haviland
Kontekst: I believe there is no part of our lives, our adult as well as child life, when we're not fantasizing, but we prefer to relegate fantasy to children, as though it were some tomfoolery only fit for the immature minds of the young. Children do live in fantasy and reality; they move back and forth very easily in a way we no longer remember how to do.
“Please don't go. We'll eat you up. We love you so.”
Wariant: Oh, please don't go—we'll eat you up—we love you so!
Źródło: Parting words of the Wild Things to Max in Where the Wild Things Are (1963)
“Sipping once, sipping twice, sipping chicken soup with rice.”
Źródło: Chicken Soup With Rice: A Book of Months
Źródło: The Art of Maurice Sendak: 1980 to Present
Źródło: Caldecott and Co.: Notes on Books and Pictures
Wariant: I'll eat you up I love you so.
Źródło: Where the Wild Things Are
“When you hide another story in a story, that’s the story I am telling the children.”
Quoted in an interview, "Sendak on Sendak," Rosenbach Museum & Library, Philadelphia (2007/2008)
“I don't believe in things literally for children. That's a reduction.”
As quoted in "Sendak Is Forming Company for National Children's Theater" by Eleanor Blau, in The New York Times (25 October 1990) http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C0CE0D61F3DF936A15753C1A966958260&scp=1&sq=Sendak+reduction&st=nyt
As quoted in "Concerns Beyond Just Where the Wild Things Are" by Patricia Cohen in The New York Times (9 September 2008)
“We were the "chosen people," chosen to be killed?”
On traditional Jewish faith, as quoted in "Concerns Beyond Just Where the Wild Things Are" by Patricia Cohen in The New York Times (9 September 2008) http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/10/arts/design/10sendak.html?pagewanted=all
Quoted in an interview, "Sendak on Sendak," Rosenbach Museum & Library, Philadelphia (2007/2008)
As quoted in "Interview: Why Is Maurice Sendak So Incredibly Angry?" by Leonard S. Marcus in Parenting (October 1993); also in Ways of Telling : Conversations on the Art of the Picture Book (2002) by Leonard S. Marcus, p. 181
NOW interview (2004)