08 May 2012

If there's anything I'm proud of in my work - it's not that I draw better; there's so many better graphic artists than me - or that I write better, no. It's - and I'm not saying I know the truth, because what the hell is that? But what I got from Ruth and Dave, a kind of fierce honesty, to not let the kid down, to not let the kid get punished, to not suffer the child to be dealt with in a boring, simpering, crushing-of-the-spirit kind of way.

 - Maurice Sendak
 June 10th, 1928 - May 8th, 2012
 
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1 comment:

Fire Bird said...

yes, an uncompromising wild soul has left us