Maira Kalman Famous Quotes & Sayings
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My workspace is defined by books, ephemera, quiet and light. I don't have a computer, telephone or a fax machine there.

There is no kind of music I don't listen to. Everything good is interesting. I am as happy with a Bach fugue as I am with a record by Thelonious Monk.

If something does go wrong, here is my advice ... KEEP CALM and CARRY ON.

I like Thomas Jefferson, though he intimidated me. I thought he would have been very tough to be around. I don't know if he had such a sense of humor.

I don't like anything permanent; I have to be able to flee. You have to be able to flee at a moment's notice.

Michael Pollan is a champion. In all ways. A man of great integrity, humor, and common sense and kindness.

I still do have the little lunch bag that my mother made out of a towel and embroidered with my name on it for when I went to kindergarten.

On my desk, I always have a lemon or a lime drying. I love the fragrance. Also, a Staedtler eraser, a brush for the eraser and a pencil sharpener.

The most inspiring objects are books. I have about 5,000 volumes in my home library. It's an unending source of visuals and ideas.

I have many questions, but no patience to think them through.

Oh, Tocqueville, you're the man.

It's almost impossible to reconcile the realities of how one feels during the day, hour by hour. But I approach things not cynically.

Flowers lead to books, which lead to thinking and not thinking and then more flowers and music, music. Then many more flowers and many more books.

You'd have to be completely crazy not to be influenced by and take from other artists. It's completely impossible not to.

If you go too fast you might not notice everything. On the other hand, you don't want to be late.

Useless and precious objects. Taking up space. Taking up time.

If I could never work again and I could just listen to music and walk, I'd be very, very happy.

Washing dishes is the anecdote to confusion. I know that for a fact.

I live in a small world of gouache and brush and pen and ink. I'd like to explore the world of multiples - etching and prints.

My short attention span has allowed me a life of diversity in work and place.

Some people, surely, die on the way to something.
Then we call them the late so-and-so.