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. — 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 to give my painting a character of even greater bareness. — 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
