Maira Kalman Quotes

American - Author 1949

I don't like plots. I don't know what a plot means. I can't stand the idea of anything that starts in the beginning - you know, 'beginning, middle and end.'

You Beginning Stand End In The Beginning Plot Plots Starts Anything Idea Know Like Means Middle

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

Light Quiet Telephone Machine Computer Defined Fax Books

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.

Home Ideas Library About Inspiring Objects Source Unending Visuals Volumes Books Most

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.

Love Fragrance Always Pencil Brush Desk Drying Eraser Lemon Lime Also I Love

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

Work Music Walk Never If I Could Again Could Happy Just Listen Very

My sister is an artist and an interior designer. She went to high school for art. I went to high school for music.

Art Music School Artist Designer Interior Sister High High School She

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.

You Moment Like Permanent Flee Notice Able Anything

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.

Mother Name Bag Lunch Kindergarten Towel Little Made Out Still

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

Life Work Me Diversity Allowed Attention Span Short Attention Span Span Attention Place Short

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.

Good Music I Am Happy Bach Monk Am Everything Interesting Kind Listen Record

In any work you do, you can be profound one minute, and then you be superficial the next, and you can be smart and insightful and then insipid. There can be room for all that.

Work You Smart Next Insightful Insipid Minute One Minute Profound Superficial Any Room Then

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

You Crazy Impossible Take Influenced Artists Other

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

Day Impossible Things How Approach Cynically Hour Realities Reconcile Almost Feels

I truly believe there's always a solution to every problem.

Believe Always Solution Problem Every Truly

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.

World Pen Live Like Brush Explore Ink Prints Small

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

Kindness Man Great Humor Champion Common Sense Integrity Michael Common Sense Ways

I don't believe in politics; I don't understand any of it.

Politics Believe Understand Any

I don't listen to the news. I don't read the newspaper unless it's eccentric information - and the obituaries, of course.

Information Newspaper News Listen Eccentric Obituaries Course Read Unless

I like the brooding man - a brooding man with a sense of humor.

Man Humor Like Sense Of Humor Brooding Sense

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