Maurice Sendak
"I want to be alone and work until the day my heads hits the drawing table and I'm dead. Kaput. I feel very much like I want to be with my brother and sister again. They're nowhere. I know they're nowhere and they don't exist, but if nowhere means that's where they are, that's where I want to be."
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"I want to be alone and work until the day my heads hits the drawing table and I'm dead. Kaput. I feel very much like I want to be with my brother and sister again. They're nowhere. I know they're nowhere and they don't exist, but if nowhere means that's where they are, that's where I want to be."
"أرغب في الانفراد والعمل حتى اليوم الذي يسقط فيه رأسي على طاولة الرسم وأكون قد فارقت الحياة. انتهيت. أشعر برغبة عارمة في أن أكون مع أخي وأختي مرة أخرى. إنهما ليسا في أي مكان. أعلم أنهما ليسا في أي مكان وأنهما لا وجود لهما، ولكن إن كان "لا مكان" هو حيث هما، فذاك هو المكان الذي أرغب في أن أكون فيه."
Maurice Sendak
"In plain terms, a child is a complicated creature who can drive you crazy. There's a cruelty to childhood, there's an anger."
"الطفل، ببساطة، كائن معقد قد يدفعك إلى الجنون. في الطفولة قسوة، وفيها غضب."
Maurice Sendak
"Mothers and children are human beings, and they will sometimes do the wrong thing."
"الأمهات والأطفال بشر، وقد يخطئون أحيانًا."
Maurice Sendak
"To get a child's trust - you may know or not - is a very hard thing to do. They're so used to not believing adults - because adults tell tales and lies all the time."
"كسب ثقة الطفل – سواء أدركت أم لم تدرك – أمر بالغ الصعوبة. فهم اعتادوا ألا يصدقوا الكبار، لأن الكبار يروون الحكايات والأكاذيب طوال الوقت."
Maurice Sendak
"I adored Mickey Mouse when I was a child. He was the emblem of happiness and funniness."
"أحببت ميكي ماوس عشقاً في طفولتي، فقد كان رمز البهجة والمرح."
Maurice Sendak
"I became a set designer for opera. I'm a great opera buff, I love classical music, and I needed a time-out."
"صرت مصممة ديكور للأوبرا. أنا عاشقة للأوبرا، أحب الموسيقى الكلاسيكية، وكنت بحاجة إلى فترة استراحة."
Maurice Sendak
"My father could be very witty, even if the humor was always on the darker side of irony."
"كان أبي بارعًا في الفكاهة، وإن كانت نكتته تميل دائمًا إلى الجانب المظلم من السخرية."
Maurice Sendak
"Childhood is a tricky business. Usually, something goes wrong."
"الطفولة أمرٌ شائكٌ، وغالبًا ما يعتريها الخلل."
Maurice Sendak
"There must be more to life than having everything!"
"لا بد أن للحياة معنى أعمق من امتلاك كل شيء!"
Maurice Sendak
"There must be more to life than having everything."
"لا بد أن للحياة معنى أعمق من مجرد امتلاك كل شيء."
Maurice Sendak
"William Blake really is important my cornerstone. Nobody ever told me before he did that childhood was such a damned serious business."
"ويليام بليك حقاً هو ركني الأساس. لم يخبرني أحد قبله قط أن الطفولة أمر جادٌّ إلى هذا الحد اللعين."
Maurice Sendak
"Illustrations have as much to say as the text. The trick is to say the same thing but in a different way. It's no good being an illustrator who is saying a lot that is on his or her mind if it has nothing to do with the text. . . the artist must override the story but he must also override his own ego for the sake of the story."
"للرسوم التوضيحية ما تقوله بقدر ما للنص. والمغزى هو أن تقول الشيء ذاته، ولكن بطريقة مختلفة. فلا جدوى من رسام يقول الكثير مما يدور في خلده إن لم يكن له علاقة بالنص... يجب على الفنان أن يتجاوز القصة، ولكن عليه أيضاً أن يتجاوز ذاته من أجل القصة."
Maurice Sendak
"I remember my own childhood vividly.. I knew terrible things. But I knew I mustn't let adults know I knew. It would scare them. (In conversation with Art Spiegelman, The New Yorker, September 27, 1993)"
"أتذكر طفولتي بوضوح شديد... كنتُ أعرف أمورًا مروعة. لكنني كنتُ أدرك أن عليّ ألا أدع الكبار يعلمون أنني أعرف. فذلك كان سيخيفهم."
Maurice Sendak
"I think it is unnatural to think that there is such a thing as a blue-sky, white-clouded happy childhood for anybody. Childhood is a very, very tricky business of surviving it. Because if one thing goes wrong or anything goes wrong, and usually something goes wrong, then you are compromised as a human being. You're going to trip over that for a good part of your life."
"أعتقد أنه من غير الطبيعي أن نتصور وجود طفولة سعيدة، بسماء زرقاء وغيوم بيضاء، لأي إنسان. الطفولة هي مسعى بالغ الصعوبة للبقاء على قيد الحياة. لأنه إذا ساء أمر واحد، أو ساء أي شيء، وغالبًا ما يسوء شيء ما، فإنك تتعرض للخطر ككائن بشري. وستتعثر في ذلك الجزء الأكبر من حياتك."
Maurice Sendak
"so that it isn't upsetting to anybody. It's something we've always known about fairy tales – they talk about incest, the Oedipus complex, about psychotic mothers, like those of Snow White and Hansel and Gretel, who throw their children out. They tell things about life which children know instinctively, and the pleasure and relief lie in finding these things expressed in language that children can live with. You can't eradicate these feelings – they exist and they're a great source of creative inspiration."
Maurice Sendak
"[There are] games children must conjure up to combat an awful fact of childhood: the fact of their vulnerability to fear, anger, hate and frustration - all the emotions that are an ordinary part of their lives and that they can perceive only as as ungovernable and dangerous forces. To master these forces, children turn to fantasy: that imagined world where disturbing emotional situations are solved to their satisfaction."
Maurice Sendak
"I refuse to lie to children. I refuse to cater to the bullshit of innocence."
Maurice Sendak
"Childhood is cannibals and psychotics vomiting in your mouth!"
Maurice Sendak
"But the wild things cried, “Oh please don’t go - we’ll eat you up - we love you so!”And Max said, “No!”The wild things roared their terrible roars and gnashed their terrible teeth and rolled their terrible eyes and showed their terrible claws but Max stepped into his private boat and waved goodbye."
Maurice Sendak
"You cannot write for children. They're much too complicated. You can only write books that are of interest to them."
Maurice Sendak
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