"We will hide our immediate reaction to something strange and unnatural, or whatever. A child glares at it, and that’s what makes it more interesting to work with children. That’s the answer to the whole question. It’s the freshness and the precision of how they deal with these things, so they can look at it, and don’t avoid it the way we do."
— Maurice Sendak on exploring children’s perceptions of everyday life. Here’s Sendak’s interview with the NewsHour from 2002.
