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
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,
brain wonderful empty
Wonderful things happen when your brain is empty.
thinking no-patience
I have many questions, but no patience to think them through.
morning monday monday-morning
Every Monday morning is new hope.
sorry struggle optimistic
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?
tough sense-of-humor intimidated
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.
men sense-of-humor brooding
I like the brooding man - a brooding man with a sense of humor.
kindness integrity men
Michael Pollan is a champion. In all ways. A man of great integrity, humor, and common sense and kindness.
book light fax-machines
My workspace is defined by books, ephemera, quiet and light. I don't have a computer, telephone or a fax machine there.
art school designer
My sister is an artist and an interior designer. She went to high school for art. I went to high school for music.
world ink etching
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.