My sister is an artist and an interior designer. She went to high school for art. I went to high school for music.
Everyone I know is looking for solace, hope and a tasty snack.
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.
The book. Calming object. Held in the hand.
My short attention span has allowed me a life of diversity in work and place.
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.
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.
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.
I like the brooding man – a brooding man with a sense of humor.
I said, ‘Well, how much space do I have?’ And they said, ‘Well, you know, it’s the Internet.’
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.
You’d have to be completely crazy not to be influenced by and take from other artists. It’s completely impossible not to.
A visit to a museum is a search for beauty, truth, and meaning in our lives. Go to museums as often as you can.
Every Monday morning is new hope.
I have many questions, but no patience to think them through.
Wonderful things happen when your brain is empty.
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.
My workspace is defined by books, ephemera, quiet and light. I don’t have a computer, telephone or a fax machine there.
Michael Pollan is a champion. In all ways. A man of great integrity, humor, and common sense and kindness.