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 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. — 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… — Maira Kalman Copy Share Image
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
