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
diversity attention short-attention-spans
My short attention span has allowed me a life of diversity in work and place.
mother names lunch
I still do have the little lunch bag that my mother made out of a towel and embroidered with my name on it for when I went to kindergarten.
limes brushes pencil-sharpeners
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.
book home ideas
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.
cute mistake glasses
I tell you these stories because these things happen to everyone. It's not about being starched or polished or cute or polite. It's about having ears that stick out, about breaking yet another glass. It's about seeing something for the first time and making a million mistakes and not ever getting completely discouraged.
reality impossible hours
It's almost impossible to reconcile the realities of how one feels during the day, hour by hour. But I approach things not cynically.
museums our-lives
A visit to a museum is a search for beauty, truth, and meaning in our lives. Go to museums as often as you can.
book hands calming
The book. Calming object. Held in the hand.
smart profound insightful
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.
notebook dream travel
My dream is to walk around the world. A smallish backpack, all essentials neatly in place. A camera. A notebook. A traveling paint set. A hat. Good shoes. A nice pleated (green?) skirt for the occasional seaside hotel afternoon dance.
snacks solace tasty
Everyone I know is looking for solace, hope and a tasty snack.
advice doe calm
if something does go wrong, here is my advice... KEEP CALM and CARRY ON.
confusion facts anecdotes
Washing dishes is the anecdote to confusion. I know that for a fact.
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.