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> [My tendency towards bareness and simplification has been practiced in three fields: modeling, colors, and the figuration of the personages.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joan-miro/my-tendency-towards-bareness-and-simplification-has-been-practiced-in/)

[Joan Miro](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joan-miro/)

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## More by Joan Miro

> [The picture should be fecund. It must bring a world to birth.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joan-miro/the-picture-should-be-fecund-it-must-bring-a-world-to-birth/)

[Joan Miro](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joan-miro/)

> [As regards my means of expression, I try my hardest to achieve the maximum of clarity, power, and plastic aggressiveness; a physical sensation to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joan-miro/as-regards-my-means-of-expression-i-try-my-hardest-to-achieve-the/)

[Joan Miro](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joan-miro/)

> [I think of my studio as a vegetable garden, where things follow their natural course. They grow, they ripen. You have to graft. You…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joan-miro/i-think-of-my-studio-as-a-vegetable-garden-where-things-follow-their/)

[Joan Miro](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joan-miro/)

> [To gain freedom is to gain simplicity.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joan-miro/to-gain-freedom-is-to-gain-simplicity/)

[Joan Miro](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joan-miro/)

> [The simplest things give me ideas.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joan-miro/the-simplest-things-give-me-ideas/)

[Joan Miro](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joan-miro/)

> [The works must be conceived with fire in the soul but executed with clinical coolness.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joan-miro/the-works-must-be-conceived-with-fire-in-the-soul-but-executed-with/)

[Joan Miro](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joan-miro/)

> [What I will no longer accept is the mediocre life of a modest little gentleman.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joan-miro/what-i-will-no-longer-accept-is-the-mediocre-life-of-a-modest-little/)

[Joan Miro](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joan-miro/)

> [Never, never do I set to work on a canvas in the state it comes in from the shop. I provoke accidents - a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joan-miro/never-never-do-i-set-to-work-on-a-canvas-in-the-state-it-comes-in/)

[Joan Miro](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joan-miro/)

> [If you have any notion of where you are going, you will never get anywhere.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joan-miro/if-you-have-any-notion-of-where-you-are-going-you-will-never-get/)

[Joan Miro](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joan-miro/)

> [A modeled form is less striking than one which is not. Modeling prevents shock and limits movement to the visual depth. Without modeling or…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joan-miro/a-modeled-form-is-less-striking-than-one-which-is-not-modeling/)

[Joan Miro](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joan-miro/)

> [Poetry and painting are done in the same way you make love; it's an exchange of blood, a total embrace - without caution, without…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joan-miro/poetry-and-painting-are-done-in-the-same-way-you-make-love-it-s-an/)

[Joan Miro](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joan-miro/)

> [For me an object is something living. This cigarette or this box of matches contains a secret life much more intense than that of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joan-miro/for-me-an-object-is-something-living-this-cigarette-or-this-box-of/)

[Joan Miro](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joan-miro/)

> [Throughout the time in which I am working on a canvas I can feel how I am beginning to love it, with that love…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joan-miro/throughout-the-time-in-which-i-am-working-on-a-canvas-i-can-feel-how/)

[Joan Miro](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joan-miro/)

> [My way is to seize an image the moment it has formed in my mind, to trap it as a bird and to pin…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joan-miro/my-way-is-to-seize-an-image-the-moment-it-has-formed-in-my-mind-to/)

[Joan Miro](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joan-miro/)

> [I begin my pictures under the effect of a shock which I feel and which makes me escape from reality... I need a point…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joan-miro/i-begin-my-pictures-under-the-effect-of-a-shock-which-i-feel-and/)

[Joan Miro](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joan-miro/)

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