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Wisdom from wonderful children's author/artist Maurice Sendak b otd 1928:

"There must be more to life than having everything."
"I don't write for children. I write and someone says it's for children."
"I know that if there's a purpose for life, it was for me to hear Mozart."

Artist Joan Miro, b otd 1893:
"Works must be conceived with fire in the soul but executed with clinical coolness."
"I try to apply colours like words that shape poems, like notes that shape music."
"I feel the need of attaining the maximum of intensity with the minimum of means."

Wonderful, life-enhancing Dr Seuss b otd 1904!
"Today you are you! That is truer than true! There is no one alive who is you-er than you!"
"Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened."
"You're never too old, too wacky, too wild, to pick up a book and read to a child."

AA Milne (creator of Winnie-the-Pooh) b otd 1882!

"If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live without you."
"Weeds are flowers too, once you get to know them."
"Did you ever stop to think, and forget to start again?"

John Milton b otd 1608!

“The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven.”
“Long is the way and hard, that out of Hell leads up to light.”
“Such sweet compulsion doth in music lie.”
“The childhood shows the man, As morning shows the day.”

Polymath William Blake b otd 1757!

"To see a world in a grain of sand and heaven in a wild flower Hold infinity in the palm of your hand and eternity in an hour."
"to the eyes of the man of imagination, nature is imagination itself."
"What is now proved was once only imagined."

One of the best illustrations of the passage of generations in music is the work of Bach's sons. At least 3 of them wonderful composers- CPE in particular not only startlingly original, but also an important figure in musical history; but SO little in common with the music of JS.

Delacroix, b otd 1798:
"The source of genius is imagination alone, the refinement of the senses that sees what others do not see, or sees them differently."
"A painting is a bridge between the soul of the artist and that of the spectator."
"There is beauty... for every spirit."

Two of the funniest men ever b otd - how we need them now!
Gerard Hoffnung, cartoonist/musician 1925:
'My hair grows inwards these days; it comes out on my chin every morning'.
Chico Marx 1887:
'I-a love money! I-a KILL for money. But you my friend - I kill you for nothing.'

Paul Cezanne b otd 1839:

"A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art."
"Genius is the ability to renew one's emotions in daily experience."
"We live in a rainbow of chaos.."
"Art is a harmony parallel with nature."