if something does go wrong, here is my advice... KEEP CALM and CARRY ON. Maira Kalman More Quotes by Maira Kalman More Quotes From Maira Kalman What protects you in this world from sadness and from the loss of an ability to do something? ... Work and love. Maira Kalman sadness and-love loss 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. Maira Kalman glasses mistake cute A visit to a museum is a search for beauty, truth, and meaning in our lives. Go to museums as often as you can. Maira Kalman our-lives museums Go out and walk. That is the glory of life. Maira Kalman walks glory 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. Maira Kalman notebook dream travel Everyone I know is looking for solace, hope and a tasty snack. Maira Kalman funny-food solace snacks 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 smart insightful profound Washing dishes is the anecdote to confusion. I know that for a fact. Maira Kalman anecdotes confusion facts 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. Maira Kalman flower book thinking The book. Calming object. Held in the hand. Maira Kalman calming book hands I have many questions, but no patience to think them through. Maira Kalman no-patience thinking Wonderful things happen when your brain is empty. Maira Kalman empty brain wonderful 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 limes brushes desks My workspace is defined by books, ephemera, quiet and light. I don't have a computer, telephone or a fax machine there. Maira Kalman fax-machines light book 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 artist impossible My short attention span has allowed me a life of diversity in work and place. Maira Kalman short-attention-spans diversity attention 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. Maira Kalman tears earth jobs 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. Maira Kalman mustache paris brain 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 etching ink world 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. Maira Kalman lunch mother names
