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Once a little boy sent me a charming card with a little drawing on it. I loved it. I answer all my children’s letters — sometimes very hastily — but this one I lingered over. I sent him a card and I drew a picture of a Wild Thing on it. I wrote, ‘Dear Jim: I loved your card.’ Then I got a letter back from his mother and she said, ‘Jim loved your card so much he ate it.’ That to me was one of the highest compliments I’ve ever received. He didn’t care that it was an original Maurice Sendak drawing or anything. He saw it, he loved it, he ate it.
This wonderful anecdote about Maurice Sendak captures just about everything that made his work and spirit great.
Related, remember him with his last video interview, by none other than Stephen Colbert, and his unreleased drawings.
(via explore-blog)
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To just go into another room and make pictures. It’s magic time. Where all your weaknesses of character and all blemishes of personality and whatever else torments you fades away.
Maurice Sendak (via steve-kim) -
Not a single one of the cells that compose you knows who you are, or cares.
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The only people who ever get anyplace interesting are the people who get lost.
Henry David Thoreau (via bazzerio)(Source: westofication, via bazzerio)
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When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down ‘happy’. They told me I didn’t understand the assignment, and I told them they didn’t understand life.
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You tend to get told that the world is the way it is, but life can be much broader once you discover one simple fact, and that is that everything around you that you call life was made up by people no smarter than you. Once you learn that, you’ll never be the same again.
Steve Jobs (via steve-kim) -
If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up people to collect wood and don’t assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery -
I wish him the best, I really do. I just think he and Microsoft are a bit narrow. He’d be a broader guy if he had dropped acid once or gone off to an ashram when he was younger.
Steve Jobs on Bill Gates - The New York Times, January 12, 1997(Source: brainpickings.org)
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You need to let the little things that would ordinarily bore you suddenly thrill you.
by David Carson
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“I’m an idealist. I don’t know where I’m going, but I’m on my way.”
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Well, I’ve changed the course of music five or six times. What have you done except fuck the president?
Miles Davis to Nancy Reagan at a White House dinner in 1987 after she’d inquired as to what he’d done with his life to merit an invitation. source (via marxisforbros)(Source: theadrianflores, via austinkleon)
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