Maurice Sendak Quotes

All I liked to do when I was a kid was draw.

When I was 4 years old I used to draw on the sidewalk with broken brick.

I remember kids used to give me a penny for drawing them a horse. I loved horses, but I couldn't have one, so I would draw a horse for myself. I would make it food and a blanket for it to wear and a place to live.

I've been drawing as long as I can remember. I think all children draw as soon as they figure out the thumb and can grab crayons. The only difference with people like myself is that we never stopped drawing.

When you are little, you will draw pictures for no reason.

We are all born artists... Almost everything kids do is art.

Everybody draws when they are little.

I never really read comics. I bought them, and I would draw them.

Hand any four-year-old a fist full of crayons, and it is a very, very few who don't get busy with them, drawing, coloring, scribbling. I have not stopped scribbling.

When I was young, I drew as often as I wrote.

Writing and drawing comics for the sheer joy of it - that's true bliss.

I tried to draw and write comics when I was four. By the time I was nine, I had written my first story - about my dog, of course.

When I was growing up, I drew my favorite basketball players.

[Drawing] and making things was all we ever did. My brother and I built the entire New York World's Fair of 1939 in miniature out of wax. The floor of our room was covered with little waxen buildings. Nobody else could come in.

Sometimes my kids might tell me they had a dream or and maybe I'll paint some paintings from their dream. That's one good thing you get from your kids. Rob them of their dreams.

The things that I do today are the things I did as a child. When I was a child, either I was drawing or I was taking all the kids off my street and I wanted to make shows - I was all the time making! The only thing is, now I know how to do it better, and now they give me money for it.

I always knew I wanted to create. I used to sit in my room for hours drawing and making things. I once got into trouble for cutting up my mother's lampshades to make a dress. I was three.

Don't think it, ink it.

My daughter loves to do art stuff. As a father, I like to play with her. We break out the big pads of paper and the glitter and all the stuff. She likes to do what she likes to do. I want to do something, too. So I've just started using her same materials - a lot of crayons, a lot of sparkle, charcoal, pencils, markers and glue.

I was a pretty alert kid, and I, you know, I was very interested in arts.

Everyone gets a pencil as a kid, but it doesn't make them all authors or painters or drawers or anything else.

A drawing is simply a line going for a walk.

I want to show how much fun you can have drawing... parents and children can draw together as a wonderful shared activity.

Lying in bed would be an altogether perfect and supreme experience if only one had a colored pencil long enough to draw on the ceiling.

The coming of the kids hasn't come out in my art yet.