Joan Miro Quotes

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• What I am looking for... is an immobile movement, something which would be the equivalent of what is called the eloquence of silence, or what…
• Throughout the time in which I am working on a canvas I can feel how I am beginning to love it, with that love which…
• When I stand before a canvas, I never know what I'll do, and I am the first one surprised at what comes out.
• A simple line painted with the brush can lead to freedom and happiness.
• 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 or poetry is made as one makes love - a total embrace, prudence thrown to the winds, nothing held back.
• More important than a work of art itself is what it will sow. Art can die, a painting can disappear. What counts is the seed.
• The spectacle of the sky overwhelms me. I'm overwhelmed when I see, in an immense sky, the crescent of the moon or the sun.
• 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…
• The simplest things give me ideas.
• The painting rises from the brushstrokes as a poem rises from the words. The meaning comes later.
• The spectacle of the sky overwhelms me. Im overwhelmed when I see, in an immense sky, the crescent of the moon, or the sun. There,…
• Little by little, I've reached the stage of using only a small number of forms and colors. It's not the first time that painting has…
• I want to assassinate painting,
• I make no distinction between poetry and painting.
• The more I work, the more I want to work.
• I throw down the gauntlet to chance. For example, I prepare the ground for a picture by cleaning my brush over the canvas. Spilling a…
• For me, a picture should be like sparks. It must dazzle like the beauty of a woman or a poem. It must have radiance; it…
• As regards my means of expression, I try my hardest to achieve the maximum of clarity, power, and plastic aggressiveness; a physical sensation to begin…
• That which interests me above all else is the calligraphy of a tree or the tiles of a roof, and I mean leaf by leaf,…

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