You may be exhausted from holding things and be disheartened. And even weep if you are very emotional. Which could be anyone on any day. With good reason. But then there is the next moment and the next day and...hold on[.]
-- Maira Kalman, Women Holding Things
It is hard work to hold everything and it never ends.
-- Maira Kalman, Women Holding Things
Objects around us hold our attention and our love.
-- Maira Kalman, Women Holding Things
The terrors of the world exist. And we are wounded. It would be so nice to never be afraid. But I am afraid that is just not possbile.
-- Maira Kalman, Women Holding Things
If you meet the Holocaust, you can never escape its grip. You are obliged to feel it reverberate through all things for the rest of your life.
-- Maira Kalman, Women Holding Things
How much I love things and the stories they tell.
-- Maira Kalman, Women Holding Things
When I think about (Cézanne and his wife Hortense) disagreeing, bickering, being sullen, brooding and moping and then him painting cherries, or trees, and painting her over and over, I am heartened. And settled inside. Because every day is a struggle, and it is not easy. But if you can paint a bowel of cherries, that is something.
-- Maira Kalman, Women Holding Things
