It is impossible to know what fate will bring. If you love to write or paint, you will keep on writing or painting, and things will either work out or not, and you just have to keep being in the… — Maira Kalman Copy Share Image
My dream is to walk around the world. A smallish backpack, all essentials neatly in place. A camera. A notebook. A traveling paint set. A hat. Good shoes. A nice pleated (green?) skirt for the occasional seaside hotel afternoon dance. — 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
