Joan Miro Quotes

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• The painting rises from the brushstrokes as a poem rises from the words. The meaning comes later.

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  Artist, Painting

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• A simple line painted with the brush can lead to freedom and happiness.

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  Simple, Drawing, Freedom And Happiness

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• You can look at a picture for a week and never think of it again. You can also look at the picture for a second and think of it all your life.

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  Inspirational, Photography, Thinking

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• If you have any notion of where you are going, you will never get anywhere.

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  Where You Are, Where You Are Going, Notion

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• To gain freedom is to gain simplicity.

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  Simplicity, Gains

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• I try to apply colors like words that shape poems, like notes that shape music.

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  Art, Color, Trying

  "Joan Miro: Selected Writings and Interviews". Book by Joan Miró, editing by M.Rowell, Thames and Hudson, 1987.

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• When I stand before a canvas, I never know what I'll do, and I am the first one surprised at what comes out.

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  Firsts, Painting, Canvas

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• What I am seeking... is a motionless movement, something equivalent to what is called the eloquence of silence.

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  Silence, Movement, Eloquence

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• More important than a work of art itself is what it will sow. Art can die, a painting can disappear. What counts is the seed.

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  Art, Important, Painting

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• Poetry and painting are done in the same way you make love; it's an exchange of blood, a total embrace - without caution, without any thought of protecting yourself.

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  Blood, Making Love, Done

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• The simplest things give me ideas.

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  Ideas, Giving, Simplicity

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• Painting must be fertile. It must give birth to a world.. ..it must fertilize the imagination.

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  Giving, Imagination, World

  "Calder/Miró". Book by Elizabeth Hutton Turner, Oliver Wick (p. 82, note 24), 2004.

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• The works must be conceived with fire in the soul but executed with clinical coolness.

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  Inspirational, Motivational, Fire

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• I think of my studio as a vegetable garden, where things follow their natural course. They grow, they ripen. You have to graft. You have to water.

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  Garden, Thinking, Vegetables

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• I believe that to do anything in this world one needs a love for risk and adventure, and above all, to be able to do without what middle-class families call "future."

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  Courage, Believe, Adventure

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• I make no distinction between poetry and painting.

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  Painting, Distinction

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  For me an object is something living. This cigarette or this box of matches contains a secret life much more intense than that of certain human beings.

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  Secret, Intense, Cigarette

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• The more I work, the more I want to work.

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  Want

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• Never, never do I set to work on a canvas in the state it comes in from the shop. I provoke accidents - a form, a splotch of color. Any accident is good enough. I let the matiere decide. Then I prepare a ground by, for example, wiping my brushes on the canvas. Letting fall some drops of turpentine on it would do just as well. If I want to make a drawing I crumple the sheet of paper or I wet it; the flowing water traces a line and this line may suggest what is to come next.

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  Fall, Drawing, Color

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• The more ignoble I find life, the more strongly I react by contradiction, in humour and in an outburst of liberty and expansion.

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  Liberty, Expansion, Contradiction

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• The spectacle of the sky overwhelms me. Im overwhelmed when I see, in an immense sky, the crescent of the moon, or the sun. There, in my pictures, tiny forms in huge empty spaces. Empty spaces, empty horizons, empty plains - everything which is bare has always greatly impressed me.

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  Moon, Sky, Space

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• For me, a painting must give off sparks. It must dazzle like the beauty of a woman or a poem.

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  Giving, Dazzle, Sparks

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• I begin painting and as I paint the picture begins to assert itself, or suggest itself, under my brush. The form becomes a sign for a woman or a bird as I work... The first stage is free, unconscious... the second stage is carefully calculated.

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  Bird, Firsts, Painting

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• What I am looking for... is an immobile movement, something which would be the equivalent of what is called the eloquence of silence, or what St. John of the Cross, I think it was, described with the term 'mute music'.

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  Thinking, Swag, Silence

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• My characters have undergone the same process of simplification as the colors. Now that they have been simplified, they appear more human and alive than if they had been represented in all their details.

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  Character, Artist, Color

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