Joan Miro Quotes - Page 2

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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.

  Joan Miro

  Vocabulary, Discovery, Different

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• I start from something considered dead and arrive at a world. And when I put a title on it, it becomes even more alive.

  Joan Miro

  Titles, Alive, World

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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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• 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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• For me, a picture should be like sparks. It must dazzle like the beauty of a woman or a poem. It must have radiance; it must be like those stones which Pyrenean shepherds use to light their pipes.

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  Light, Dazzle, Sparks

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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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• I work like a gardener.

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  Gardener

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• I want to assassinate painting.

  Joan Miro

  Want, Painting

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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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• 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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• Throughout the time in which I am working on a canvas I can feel how I am beginning to love it, with that love which is born of slow comprehension.

  Joan Miro

  Emotion, Canvas, Born

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• A modeled form is less striking than one which is not. Modeling prevents shock and limits movement to the visual depth. Without modeling or chiaroscuro depth is limitless: movement can stretch to infinity.

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  Depth, Movement, Limits

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• I throw down the gauntlet to chance. For example, I prepare the ground for a picture by cleaning my brush over the canvas. Spilling a little turpentine can also be helpful.

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  Example, Littles, Chance

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• The picture should be fecund. It must bring a world to birth.

  Joan Miro

  World, Birth, Should

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• Art class was like a religious ceremony to me. I would wash my hands carefully before touching paper or pencils. The instruments of work were sacred objects to me.

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  Religious, Art, Hands

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• I begin my pictures under the effect of a shock which I feel and which makes me escape from reality... I need a point of departure, even if it's only a speck of dust or a flash of light.

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  Reality, Light, Dust

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• As regards my means of expression, I try my hardest to achieve the maximum of clarity, power, and plastic aggressiveness; a physical sensation to begin with, followed up by an impact on the psyche.

  Joan Miro

  Mean, Impact, Expression

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• What I will no longer accept is the mediocre life of a modest little gentleman.

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  Gentleman, Littles, Mediocre Life

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• My tendency towards bareness and simplification has been practiced in three fields: modeling, colors, and the figuration of the personages.

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  Color, Simplicity, Three

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