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Art has always been my salvation. And my gods are Herman Melville, Emily Dickinson, Mozart. I believe in them with all my heart. And when Mozart is playing in my room, I am in conjunction with something I can’t explain — I don’t need to. I know that if there’s a purpose for life, it was for me to hear Mozart. Or if I walk in the woods and I see an animal, the purpose of my life was to see that animal. I can recollect it, I can notice it. I’m here to take note of. And that is beyond my ego, beyond anything that belongs to me, an observer, an observer.
–Maurice Sendak
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Amen to these wise words from the late great Maurice Sendak.
Thought it might be nice to share some of his work beyond Where the Wild Things Are. It is equally as wonderful.
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I especially like the bird chiding the kitty in the bushes, the bats just above, and the woman with the cats. Others really are humorous, though. I wonder about the context of the dude in the swimming hold wearing his tri-cornered hat and smoking a pipe. That one made me laugh.
That is one of my favorites. It just raises so many premises and questions. It is from a book of Grimm tales, “The Juniper Tree,” that Sendak illustrated so I imagine it will be based on a pretty dark story if the story from the book’s title is any indicator. Here’s the Wiki version of The Juniper Tree.
Thank you …..again!
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