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
I try to apply colors like words that shape poems, like notes that shape music. — Joan Miro Copy Share Image
Art class was like a religious ceremony to me. I would wash my hands carefully before touching paper or pencils. The instruments… — 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
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
The spectacle of the sky overwhelms me. I'm overwhelmed when I see, in an immense sky, the crescent of the moon or… — 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 Image
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 Image
The works must be conceived with fire in the soul but executed with clinical coolness. — Joan Miro Copy Share Image
What I will no longer accept is the mediocre life of a modest little gentleman. — 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 - a… — Joan Miro Copy Share Image
If you have any notion of where you are going, you will never get anywhere. — Joan Miro Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
