Maira Kalman
Maira Kalman
Maira Kalmanis an American illustrator, writer, artist, and designer. Her work most widely held in WorldCat libraries is Fireboat: the heroic adventures of the John J. Harvey, a picture book she both wrote and illustrated. It won the annual Boston Globe–Horn Book Award for Nonfiction in 2003...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionAuthor
CountryUnited States of America
anyone
I said to myself, how could anyone not have illustrated this before?
realistic stop
who never told me to do anything realistic and who never told me to stop daydreaming.
charge dance diamond father home influence left piano women wonderful
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.
fixed
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.
bach good listen music record
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.
home inspiring objects source unending visuals volumes
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.
plot starts
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.'
flee
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.
eccentric information unless
I don't listen to the news. I don't read the newspaper unless it's eccentric information - and the obituaries, of course.
space internet said
I said, 'Well, how much space do I have?' And they said, 'Well, you know, it's the Internet.'
crazy artist impossible
You'd have to be completely crazy not to be influenced by and take from other artists. It's completely impossible not to.
jobs tears earth
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,
paris mustache brain
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.
glory walks
Go out and walk. That is the glory of life,