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“Before they read words, children are reading pictures.”

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David Wiesner is an American illustrator known for his unique artistic style and creative storytelling. His works have won multiple Caldecott Medals, making him a significant figure in children's literature. more

“Children are tough, though we tend to think of them as fragile. They have to be tough. Childhood is not easy. We sentimentalize children, but they know what's real and what's not. They understand metaphor and symbol. If children are different from us, they are more spontaneous. Grown-up lives have become overlaid with dross.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Children Different Real Easy Childhood Tough Metaphor Symbols Fragile Spontaneous Understand Me Dross

Author:Maurice Sendak

“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.”

Way Mind Believe Wells Children Reality Remember Moving Young I Believe Fantasy Our Lives Fit Adults Back And Forth Immature Young Children Fantasy And Reality

Author:Maurice Sendak

“I'm totally crazy, I know that. I don't say that to be a smartass, but I know that that's the very essence of what makes my work good. And I know my work is good. Not everybody likes it, that's fine. I don't do it for everybody. Or anybody. I do it because I can't not do it.”

Knows I Can Crazy Fine Essence Likes Because I Can Smartass

Author:Maurice Sendak

“I don't write for children. I write, and somebody says, 'That's for children.'”

Writing Children

Author:Maurice Sendak

“I refuse to cater to the bullshit of innocence.”

Refuse Innocence Bullshit

Author:Maurice Sendak

“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.”

Ifs Way Should Writing Stories Artist Imagination Vision Strive Originality

Author:Maurice Sendak

“That's what art is. You don't make up stories. You live your life.”

Art Stories Art Is Live Your Life

Author:Maurice Sendak

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