Maira Kalman Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

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

“My sister is an artist and an interior designer. She went to high school for art. I went to high school for music.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

“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.”

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

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