Quotes from Maira Kalman

A visit to a museum is a search for beauty, truth, and meaning in our lives. Go to museums as often as you can.

I truly believe there's always a solution to every problem.

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 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.'

I don't listen to the news. I don't read the newspaper unless it's eccentric information - and the obituaries, of course.

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

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.

My short attention span has allowed me a life of diversity in work and place.

My sister is an artist and an interior designer. She went to high school for art. I went to high school for music.

My workspace is defined by books, ephemera, quiet and light. I don't have a computer, telephone or a fax machine there.