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Maira Kalman
American
Author
Born:
1949
Always
Humor
Impossible
Music
Work
You
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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.
Maira Kalman
Work
You
Smart
One Minute
Insightful
Minute
Superficial
Insipid
Any
Room
Then
Next
Profound
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.
Maira Kalman
Love
Fragrance
Pencil
Brush
Also
Drying
Lime
Always
Eraser
Lemon
Desk
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.
Maira Kalman
World
Live
Pen
Small
Brush
Like
Prints
Explore
Ink
If I could never work again and I could just listen to music and walk, I'd be very, very happy.
Maira Kalman
Work
Music
Happy
Walk
Could
Never
Very
Listen
Just
Again
If I Could
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.
Maira Kalman
Home
Me
Women
Wonderful
Mother
Father
Dance
Diamond
Everything
Background
Charge
Absent
Piano
Piano Lessons
He
Dealer
Ballet
Doing
Were
Left
Wonderful Things
Influence
Really
Lessons
Things
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.
Maira Kalman
Job
Before
Panic
State
Complete
Earth
Worse
Something
Could
Disaster
Sure
Because
Doing
Begin
Than
Going
Anybody
Planet
Planet Earth
Ever
Imagine
You'd have to be completely crazy not to be influenced by and take from other artists. It's completely impossible not to.
Maira Kalman
Crazy
You
Impossible
Other
Take
Artists
Influenced
It's almost impossible to reconcile the realities of how one feels during the day, hour by hour. But I approach things not cynically.
Maira Kalman
Day
Impossible
Approach
Reconcile
Almost
Feels
Hour
How
Realities
Cynically
Things
I truly believe there's always a solution to every problem.
Maira Kalman
Problem
Believe
Every
Solution
Always
Truly
I don't believe in politics; I don't understand any of it.
Maira Kalman
Politics
Believe
Understand
Any
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