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Top 30 Maira Kalman Quotes (2025 Update)

Maira Kalman Quote: “Every Monday morning is new hope.”

1. “Every Monday morning is new hope.”

— Maira Kalman

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Maira Kalman Quote: “A visit to a museum is a search for beauty, truth, and meaning in our lives. Go to museums as often as you can.”

2. “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

Maira Kalman Quote: “Wonderful things happen when your brain is empty.”

3. “Wonderful things happen when your brain is empty.”

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Maira Kalman Quote: “Washing dishes is the anecdote to confusion. I know that for a fact.”

4. “Washing dishes is the anecdote to confusion. I know that for a fact.”

— Maira Kalman

Maira Kalman Quote: “I like the brooding man – a brooding man with a sense of humor.”

5. “I like the brooding man – a brooding man with a sense of humor.”

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Maira Kalman Quote: “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.”

6. “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

Maira Kalman Quote: “Everyone I know is looking for solace, hope and a tasty snack.”

7. “Everyone I know is looking for solace, hope and a tasty snack.”

— Maira Kalman

Maira Kalman Quote: “My sister is an artist and an interior designer. She went to high school for art. I went to high school for music.”

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

— Maira Kalman

Maira Kalman Quote: “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.”

9. “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

Maira Kalman Quote: “Isn’t that the only way to curate a life? To live among things that make you gasp with delight?”

10. “Isn’t that the only way to curate a life? To live among things that make you gasp with delight?”

— Maira Kalman

Maira Kalman Quote: “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.”

11. “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

Maira Kalman Quote: “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.”

12. “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

Maira Kalman Quote: “My workspace is defined by books, ephemera, quiet and light. I don’t have a computer, telephone or a fax machine there.”

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

— Maira Kalman

Maira Kalman Quote: “My short attention span has allowed me a life of diversity in work and place.”

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

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Maira Kalman Quote: “I read obituaries first thing in the morning. With a cup of coffee. This is NOT MORBID. Just epic. Maybe it’s a way of trying to figure out, before the day begins, what is important. And I am curious about all the little things that make up life. Little?”

15. “I read obituaries first thing in the morning. With a cup of coffee. This is NOT MORBID. Just epic. Maybe it’s a way of trying to figure out, before the day begins, what is important. And I am curious about all the little things that make up life. Little?”

— Maira Kalman

Maira Kalman Quote: “I have many questions, but no patience to think them through.”

16. “I have many questions, but no patience to think them through.”

— Maira Kalman

Maira Kalman Quote: “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.”

17. “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

Maira Kalman Quote: “It’s almost impossible to reconcile the realities of how one feels during the day, hour by hour. But I approach things not cynically.”

18. “It’s almost impossible to reconcile the realities of how one feels during the day, hour by hour. But I approach things not cynically.”

— Maira Kalman

Maira Kalman Quote: “I don’t want to trudge up insane mountains or through war-torn lands. Just a nice stroll through the hill and dale. But now I walk everywhere in the city. Any city. You see everything you need to see in a lifetime. Every emotion. Every condition. Every fashion. Every glory.”

19. “I don’t want to trudge up insane mountains or through war-torn lands. Just a nice stroll through the hill and dale. But now I walk everywhere in the city. Any city. You see everything you need to see in a lifetime. Every emotion. Every condition. Every fashion. Every glory.”

— Maira Kalman

Maira Kalman Quote: “The book. Calming object. Held in the hand.”

20. “The book. Calming object. Held in the hand.”

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Maira Kalman Quote: “I said, ‘Well, how much space do I have?’ And they said, ‘Well, you know, it’s the Internet.’”

21. “I said, ‘Well, how much space do I have?’ And they said, ‘Well, you know, it’s the Internet.’”

— Maira Kalman

Maira Kalman Quote: “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.”

22. “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.”

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Maira Kalman Quote: “The ability to take a walk from one point to the next point, that is half the battle won.”

23. “The ability to take a walk from one point to the next point, that is half the battle won.”

— Maira Kalman

Maira Kalman Quote: “Michael Pollan is a champion. In all ways. A man of great integrity, humor, and common sense and kindness.”

24. “Michael Pollan is a champion. In all ways. A man of great integrity, humor, and common sense and kindness.”

— Maira Kalman

Maira Kalman Quote: “You’d have to be completely crazy not to be influenced by and take from other artists. It’s completely impossible not to.”

25. “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

Maira Kalman Quote: “All terrific but the people. THE PEOPLE. Everyone looks so exalted, or so wretched, or so spiffy, so funny, so splendid. If you are ever bored or blue, stand on the street corner for half an hour.”

26. “All terrific but the people. THE PEOPLE. Everyone looks so exalted, or so wretched, or so spiffy, so funny, so splendid. If you are ever bored or blue, stand on the street corner for half an hour.”

— Maira Kalman

Maira Kalman Quote: “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.”

27. “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

Maira Kalman Quote: “If you go too fast you might not notice everything. On the other hand, you don’t want to be late.”

28. “If you go too fast you might not notice everything. On the other hand, you don’t want to be late.”

— Maira Kalman

Maira Kalman Quote: “Useless and precious objects. Taking up space. Taking up time.”

29. “Useless and precious objects. Taking up space. Taking up time.”

— Maira Kalman

Maira Kalman Quote: “The pieces I chose were based on one thing only – a gasp of delight. Isn’t that the only way to curate a life?”

30. “The pieces I chose were based on one thing only – a gasp of delight. Isn’t that the only way to curate a life?”

— Maira Kalman

Maira Kalman Quote: “And it is very true that the most tender, complicated, most generous part of our being blossoms without any effort, when it comes to the love of a dog.”

31. “And it is very true that the most tender, complicated, most generous part of our being blossoms without any effort, when it comes to the love of a dog.”

— Maira Kalman

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