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All Quotes by author - Maira Kalman
" I don't believe in politics; I don't understand any of it. "
Understand
Any
Believe
" 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. "
Anything
You
Like
" 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.' "
Stand
Like
Know
" I don't listen to the news. I don't read the newspaper unless it's eccentric information - and the obituaries, of course. "
Information
Newspaper
Listen
" If I could never work again and I could just listen to music and walk, I'd be very, very happy. "
Walk
Never
Work
" 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. "
Working
Stop
I Am
" I like the brooding man - a brooding man with a sense of humor. "
Humor
Sense Of Humor
Man
" 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. "
Like
Tough
Humor
" 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. "
Pen
Live
Small
" 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. "
Disaster
Imagine
Job
" 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. "
You
Work
Minute
" 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. "
Mother
Bag
Kindergarten
" 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. "
You
Painting
Work
" I truly believe there's always a solution to every problem. "
Always
Solution
Problem
" It's almost impossible to reconcile the realities of how one feels during the day, hour by hour. But I approach things not cynically. "
How
Day
Things
" Michael Pollan is a champion. In all ways. A man of great integrity, humor, and common sense and kindness. "
Great
Man
Kindness
" 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. "
Women
Mother
Me
" My short attention span has allowed me a life of diversity in work and place. "
Place
Short
Work
" My sister is an artist and an interior designer. She went to high school for art. I went to high school for music. "
School
High School
Art
" My workspace is defined by books, ephemera, quiet and light. I don't have a computer, telephone or a fax machine there. "
Telephone
Books
Quiet
" 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. "
Desk
Love
Pencil
" 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. "
Source
Ideas
Books
" 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. "
I Am
Music
Good
" You'd have to be completely crazy not to be influenced by and take from other artists. It's completely impossible not to. "
Impossible
Other
Crazy
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