One of the beauties of being an artist is that you can create a whole new world, with circumstances that are better in your invented world than they are in the real world. (Maurice Sendak)

One of the beauties of being an artist is that you can create a whole new world, with circumstances that are better in your invented world than they are in the real world.

Maurice Sendak

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