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Portrait of Maira Kalman

Maira Kalman

(1949) Writer United States

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Maira Kalman is a writer from the United States, best known for Fireboat.

Quick Facts About Maira Kalman

Born: January 1, 1949
Nationality: United States
Profession: Writer
Notable works: Fireboat

About Maira Kalman

Maira Kalman is an American artist, illustrator, writer, and designer known for her painting and writing about the human condition. She is the author and illustrator of over 30 books for adults and children and her work is exhibited in museums around the world. She has been a regular contributor to The New York Times and The New Yorker.

Biography source: Wikipedia

Quotes by Maira Kalman

Go out and walk. That is the glory of life,

Glory

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

Course

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I have been working for over 30 years and am always wondering about where I am and where I am going. It…

About

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I still do have the little lunch bag that my mother made out of a towel and embroidered with my name on…

Bag

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

Allowed

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Every Monday morning is new hope.

Good morning

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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…

Anguish

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Wonderful things happen when your brain is empty.

Brain

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

No patience

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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.…

Anxiety

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

Brooding

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

Art

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It is impossible to know what fate will bring. If you love to write or paint, you will keep on writing or…

Being

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My dream is to walk around the world. A smallish backpack, all essentials neatly in place. A camera. A notebook. A traveling…

Afternoon

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“The man stands behind the man. The seated man thinks, "For heaven's sake, stop standing behind me. You are driving me mad.…

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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.

About

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

Always

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My mother was the influence on me - my father was absent. He was a diamond dealer; he was doing wonderful things…

Absent

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“On the wall was a dress that I embroidered. It said "Ich Habe Genug." Which is a Bach Cantata. Which I once…

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“He is a monk. On his card it says INNER PEACE CENTER. I will go there in February for a tea ceremony.…

Inner peace

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It is not about getting it right. It is about getting it.

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Soon enough it will be me struggling (valiantly?) to walk - lugging my stuff around. How are we all so brave as…

Brave

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What protects you in this world from sadness and from the loss of an ability to do something? ... Work and love.

Ability

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

Book

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

Almost

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