Joan Miro Quotes

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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.

  Joan Miro

  Inspirational, Photography, Thinking

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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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• 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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• 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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• To gain freedom is to gain simplicity.

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  Simplicity, Gains

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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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• 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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• 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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  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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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.

  Joan Miro

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

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  Want

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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 make no distinction between poetry and painting.

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  Painting, Distinction

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• The simplest things give me ideas.

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  Ideas, Giving, Simplicity

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• My way is to seize an image the moment it has formed in my mind, to trap it as a bird and to pin it at once to canvas. Afterward I start to tame it, to master it. I bring it under control and I develop it.

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  Bird, Mind, Way

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• Little by little, I've reached the stage of using only a small number of forms and colors. It's not the first time that painting has been done with a very narrow range of colors. The frescoes of the tenth century are painted like this. For me, they are magnificent things.

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  Small Numbers, Color, Done

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• I work like a labourer on a farm or in a vineyard. Things come to me slowly. My vocabulary of forms, for instance, has not been the discovery of a day. It took shape in spite of myself... That is why I am always working on a hundred different things at the same time.

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  Vocabulary, Discovery, Different

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