Zitat des Tages von Maira Kalman:
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.
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.
My short attention span has allowed me a life of diversity in work and place.
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.
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.
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.
If I could never work again and I could just listen to music and walk, I'd be very, very happy.
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.
You'd have to be completely crazy not to be influenced by and take from other artists. It's completely impossible not to.
I like the brooding man - a brooding man with a sense of humor.
I truly believe there's always a solution to every problem.
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.
My sister is an artist and an interior designer. She went to high school for art. I went to high school for music.
