For me, a painting must give off sparks. It must dazzle like the beauty of a woman or a poem. — Joan Miro Copy Share Image
The painting rises from the brushstrokes as a poem rises from the words. The meaning comes later. — Joan Miro Copy Share Image
Painting or poetry is made as one makes love - a total embrace, prudence thrown to the winds, nothing held back. — Joan Miro Copy Share Image
Painting must be fertile. It must give birth to a world.. ..it must fertilize the imagination. — Joan Miro Copy Share Image
When I stand before a canvas, I never know what I'll do, and I am the first one surprised at what comes… — Joan Miro Copy Share Image
Poetry and painting are done in the same way you make love; it's an exchange of blood, a total embrace - without… — Joan Miro Copy Share Image
I throw down the gauntlet to chance. For example, I prepare the ground for a picture by cleaning my brush over the… — Joan Miro Copy Share Image
I feel the need of attaining the maximum of intensity with the minimum of means. It is this which has led me… — Joan Miro Copy Share Image
I begin painting and as I paint the picture begins to assert itself, or suggest itself, under my brush. The form becomes… — Joan Miro Copy Share Image
Throughout the time in which I am working on a canvas I can feel how I am beginning to love it, with… — Joan Miro Copy Share Image
My way is to seize an image the moment it has formed in my mind, to trap it as a bird and… — Joan Miro Copy Share Image
More important than a work of art itself is what it will sow. Art can die, a painting can disappear. What counts… — Joan Miro Copy Share Image
Little by little, I've reached the stage of using only a small number of forms and colors. It's not the first time… — Joan Miro Copy Share Image
Never, never do I set to work on a canvas in the state it comes in from the shop. I provoke accidents… — Joan Miro Copy Share Image
As regards my means of expression, I try my hardest to achieve the maximum of clarity, power, and plastic aggressiveness; a physical sensation to… — Joan Miro Copy Share
I think of my studio as a vegetable garden, where things follow their natural course. They grow, they ripen. You have to graft. You… — Joan Miro Copy Share
The works must be conceived with fire in the soul but executed with clinical coolness. — Joan Miro Copy Share
What I will no longer accept is the mediocre life of a modest little gentleman. — Joan Miro Copy Share
Never, never do I set to work on a canvas in the state it comes in from the shop. I provoke accidents - a… — Joan Miro Copy Share
A modeled form is less striking than one which is not. Modeling prevents shock and limits movement to the visual depth. Without modeling or… — Joan Miro Copy Share
Poetry and painting are done in the same way you make love; it's an exchange of blood, a total embrace - without caution, without… — Joan Miro Copy Share
For me an object is something living. This cigarette or this box of matches contains a secret life much more intense than that of… — Joan Miro Copy Share
Throughout the time in which I am working on a canvas I can feel how I am beginning to love it, with that love… — Joan Miro Copy Share
My way is to seize an image the moment it has formed in my mind, to trap it as a bird and to pin… — Joan Miro Copy Share
I begin my pictures under the effect of a shock which I feel and which makes me escape from reality... I need a point… — Joan Miro Copy Share
