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… — 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
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
