My mother was the influence on me - my father was absent. He was a diamond dealer; he was doing wonderful things in the background, and women were left at home. So my mother really was in charge of everything:… — Maira Kalman Copy Share Image
I don't listen to the news. I don't read the newspaper unless it's eccentric information - and the obituaries, of course. — Maira Kalman Copy Share Image
I have been working for over 30 years and am always wondering about where I am and where I am going. It does not… — Maira Kalman Copy Share Image
I still do have the little lunch bag that my mother made out of a towel and embroidered with my name on it for… — Maira Kalman Copy Share Image
My short attention span has allowed me a life of diversity in work and place. — Maira Kalman Copy Share Image
We could speak about the meaning of life vis-a-vis non-consequential/deontological theories, apodictic transformation schemata, the incoherence of exemplification, metaphysical realism, Cartesian interactive dualism, revised non reductive dualism, postmodernist grammatology and dicey dichotomies. But we would still be left with Nietzsche's preposterous mustache which instills great anguish and skepticism in the brain, which leads (as it did in his case) to… — Maira Kalman Copy Share
I'm in a complete state of panic before I begin something because I'm sure that it's going to be a complete disaster. I'm going… — Maira Kalman Copy Share Image
You'd have to be completely crazy not to be influenced by and take from other artists. It's completely impossible not to. — Maira Kalman Copy Share Image
