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.
From Maira Kalman
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
You'd have to be completely crazy not to be influenced by and take from other artists. It's completely impossible not to.
It's almost impossible to reconcile the realities of how one feels during the day, hour by hour. But I approach things not cynically.
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.
Michael Pollan is a champion. In all ways. A man of great integrity, humor, and common sense and kindness.
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