Maira Kalman Citas

• What protects you in this world from sadness and from the loss of an ability to do something? ... Work and love.

  Maira Kalman

  Sadness, Loss, And Love

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• Visitar un museo es buscar la belleza, la verdad y el sentido de nuestras vidas. Acude a los museos siempre que puedas.

  Maira Kalman

  Museums, Our Lives

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• Wonderful things happen when your brain is empty.

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  Brain, Wonderful, Empty

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• Everyone I know is looking for solace, hope and a tasty snack.

  Maira Kalman

  Snacks, Funny Food, Solace

  "FIRST LOOK; Unleashing Her Inner Child". Interview with Chee Pearlmannov, November 1, 2001.

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• Las flores conducen a los libros, que conducen a pensar y no pensar y luego más flores y música, música. Luego muchas más flores y muchos más libros.

  Maira Kalman

  Flor, Libro, Pensamiento

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• Te cuento estas historias porque estas cosas le pasan a todo el mundo. No se trata de estar almidonado o pulido o ser mono o educado. Se trata de tener orejas de soplillo, de romper otro vaso. Se trata de ver algo por primera vez y cometer un millón de errores y no desanimarse nunca del todo.

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  Cute, Mistake, Glasses

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• 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.

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  Notebook, Dream, Travel

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• Go out and walk. That is the glory of life.

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  Glory, Walks

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• Cada lunes por la mañana es una nueva esperanza.

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  Monday, Morning, Monday Morning

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• 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.

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  Smart, Profound, Insightful

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• Washing dishes is the anecdote to confusion. I know that for a fact.

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  Confusion, Anecdotes, Facts

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• You'd have to be completely crazy not to be influenced by and take from other artists. It's completely impossible not to.

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  Crazy, Artist, Impossible

  "Maira Kalman's show at Jewish Museum". Interview with Kenneth Baker, www.sfgate.com. July 1, 2010.

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• 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.

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  Jobs, Tears, Earth

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• 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

  Paris, Mustache, Brain

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• I have many questions, but no patience to think them through.

  Maira Kalman

  Thinking, No Patience

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• The book. Calming object. Held in the hand.

  Maira Kalman

  Book, Hands, Calming

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• if something does go wrong, here is my advice... KEEP CALM and CARRY ON.

  Maira Kalman

  Advice, Doe, Calm

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• Mi corta capacidad de atención me ha permitido una vida de diversidad en el trabajo y el lugar.

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  Diversity, Attention, Short Attention Spans

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• 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.

  Maira Kalman

  Book, Home, Ideas

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• Pronto seré yo quien se esfuerce (¿valientemente?) por caminar, cargando con mis cosas. ¿Cómo somos tan valientes para dar un paso tras otro? ¿Un día tras otro? ¿Cómo somos tan optimistas, tan cuidadosos de no tropezar y, sin embargo, tropezamos, y luego nos levantamos y decimos O.K.?

  Maira Kalman

  Sorry, Struggle, Optimistic

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• I like the brooding man - a brooding man with a sense of humor.

  Maira Kalman

  Men, Sense Of Humor, Brooding

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• 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.

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  Desks, Limes, Brushes

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• Mi espacio de trabajo se define por los libros, los objetos efímeros, el silencio y la luz. No tengo ordenador, teléfono ni fax.

  Maira Kalman

  Book, Light, Fax Machines

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• 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

  Mother, Names, Lunch

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• I said, 'Well, how much space do I have?' And they said, 'Well, you know, it's the Internet.'

  Maira Kalman

  Space, Internet, Said

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