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
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.
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.
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.'
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.
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.
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.
anyone
I said to myself, how could anyone not have illustrated this before?
either impossible love work
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.
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.
sadness loss world
What protects you in this world from sadness and from the loss of an ability to do something? ... Work and love.
flower book thinking
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.
confusion facts anecdotes
Washing dishes is the anecdote to confusion. I know that for a fact.
snacks solace tasty
Everyone I know is looking for solace, hope and a tasty snack.
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if something does go wrong, here is my advice... KEEP CALM and CARRY ON.