Quotes by Maira Kalman - Page 1

Every Monday morning is new hope.
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Morning
Monday
Monday Morning
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Go out and walk. That is the glory of life.
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Glory
Walks
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The book. Calming object. Held in the hand.
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Book
Calming
Hands
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Wonderful things happen when your brain is empty.
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Brain
Empty
Wonderful
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I don't believe in politics; I don't understand any of it.
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Understand
Any
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I truly believe there's always a solution to every problem.
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Believe
Problem
Always
Every
Solution
Truly
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I have many questions, but no patience to think them through.
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No Patience
Thinking
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Everyone I know is looking for solace, hope and a tasty snack.
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Funny Food
Snacks
Solace
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I like the brooding man - a brooding man with a sense of humor.
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Humor
Men
Brooding
Sense Of Humor
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Washing dishes is the anecdote to confusion. I know that for a fact.
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Anecdotes
Confusion
Facts
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if something does go wrong, here is my advice... KEEP CALM and CARRY ON.
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Advice
Calm
Doe
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My short attention span has allowed me a life of diversity in work and place.
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Attention
Attention Span
Diversity
Short Attention Spans
Life Work Me
Short Attention Span
Span
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I said, 'Well, how much space do I have?' And they said, 'Well, you know, it's the Internet.'
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Space
Internet
Said
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If I could never work again and I could just listen to music and walk, I'd be very, very happy.
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If I Could
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Michael Pollan is a champion. In all ways. A man of great integrity, humor, and common sense and kindness.
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Kindness
Humor
Men
Champion
Common Sense
Integrity
Michael
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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.
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Permanent
Flee
Notice
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A visit to a museum is a search for beauty, truth, and meaning in our lives. Go to museums as often as you can.
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Museums
Our Lives
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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.
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And Love
Loss
Sadness
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My sister is an artist and an interior designer. She went to high school for art. I went to high school for music.
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Art
Sister
Designer
School
Art Music School
Interior
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My workspace is defined by books, ephemera, quiet and light. I don't have a computer, telephone or a fax machine there.
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Book
Computer
Defined
Fax
Fax Machines
Light
Quiet
Telephone
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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.
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Eccentric
Newspaper
Obituaries
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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.
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Artist
Crazy
Impossible
Influenced
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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.
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Etching
Ink
World
Brush
Explore
Pen
Prints
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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.
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Inspiring
Home
Book
Ideas
Unending
Visuals
Volumes
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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 cynically.
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Hours
Impossible
Reality
Reconcile
Cynically
Hour
Realities
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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 it for when I went to kindergarten.
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Lunch
Mother
Names
Bag
Towel
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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 and many more books.
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Book
Flower
Thinking
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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.
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Brushes
Desks
Fragrance
Limes
Brush
Desk
Drying
Eraser
Lemon
Lime
Pencil
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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.
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Monk
Good Music I Am
Bach
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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.
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Humor
Intimidated
Knows
Sense Of Humor
Tough
Me Tough Know
Jefferson
Thomas
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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.'
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Plot
In The Beginning
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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 does not stop and become a fixed event of achievement.
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Achievement
Fixed
Always Where I Am
Event
Wondering
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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.
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Insightful
One Minute
Profound
Smart
Superficial
Minute
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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 painting, and things will either work out or not, and you just have to keep being in the process.
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Fate
Paint
Work Out
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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. I'm going to do a worse job than anybody could ever imagine anybody doing on the planet Earth.
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Disaster
Panic
Planet Earth
Complete
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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 paint set. A hat. Good shoes. A nice pleated (green?) skirt for the occasional seaside hotel afternoon dance.
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Dream
Notebook
Travel
Nice
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The tears are invisible. 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 to do a worse job than anybody could ever imagine anybody doing on the planet earth.
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Jobs
Earth
Tears
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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 in the background, and women were left at home. So my mother really was in charge of everything: the ballet, dance lessons, piano lessons, and latkes.
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Absent
Ballet
Dealer
Diamond
Lessons
Wonderful Things
Background
Charge
Piano Lessons
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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 to take step after step? Day after day? How are we so optimistic, so careful not to trip and yet do trip, and then get up and say O.K. Why do I feel so sorry for everyone and so proud?
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Optimistic
Soon Enough
Sorry
Struggle
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I tell you these stories because these things happen to everyone. It's not about being starched or polished or cute or polite. It's about having ears that stick out, about breaking yet another glass. It's about seeing something for the first time and making a million mistakes and not ever getting completely discouraged.
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Cute
Smile
Glasses
Mistake
Stories
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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 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 utter madness. I suggest we go to Paris instead.
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Brain
Mustache
Paris
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