Quote by Maurice Sendak
I think people should be given a test much like drivers tests as t

I think people should be given a test much like drivers tests as to whether theyre capable of being parents! Its an art form. I talk a lot. And I think a lot. And I draw a lot. But never in a million years would I have been a parent. Thats just work thats too hard. – Maurice Sendak

Other quotes by Maurice Sendak

Oh, I adored Mickey Mouse when I was a child. He was the emblem of happiness and funniness. You went to the movies then, you saw two movies and a short. When Mickey Mouse came on the screen and there was his big head, my sister said she had to hold onto me. I went berserk. – Maurice Sendak

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I mean, being a child was being a child, was being a creature without power, without pocket money, without escape routes of any kind. So I didnt want to be a child. – Maurice Sendak

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Money
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Id 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 whatever. – Maurice Sendak

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Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the world he lives in. – Amy Lowell

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In every work of art the subject is primordial, whether the artist knows it or not. The measure of the formal qualities is only a sign of the measure of the artists obsession with his subject the form is always in proportion to the obsession. – Alberto Giacometti

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A race is a work of art that people can look at and be affected in as many ways theyre capable of understanding. – Steve Prefontaine

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In general it can be said that a nations art is greatest when it most reflects the character of its people. – Edward Hopper

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