Top 104 Quotes by Maurice Sendak

My work is not great, but it's respectable.

I have this idiot name tag which says 'controversial.'

I've always loved pigs: the shape of them, the look of them, and the fact that they are so intelligent.

Mothers and children are human beings, and they will sometimes do the wrong thing.

My work is not great, but it's respectable. I have no false illusions.

I did not know how to paint a mural. I did not know how to prepare the surface. There was nobody from the Renaissance around who could advise me, and I did the best I could.

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 didn't want to be a child.

I don't have kids at all and I thank God that I never did.

There's something in this country that is so opposed to understanding the complexity of children.

Girls are infinitely more complicated than boys and women more than men. And there's no doubt about that. We just don't like to think about it. Certainly the men don't like to think about it.