"A modeled form is less striking than one……" — 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 chiaroscuro depth is limitless: movement can stretch to infinity."
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38 Quotes by Joan Miro
Joan Miro has 38 quotes on this site.
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What I am looking for... is an immobile movement, something which would be the equivalent of what is called the…
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Throughout the time in which I am working on a canvas I can feel how I am beginning to love…
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When I stand before a canvas, I never know what I'll do, and I am the first one surprised at…
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A simple line painted with the brush can lead to freedom and happiness.
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I feel the need of attaining the maximum of intensity with the minimum of means. It is this which has…
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Painting or poetry is made as one makes love - a total embrace, prudence thrown to the winds, nothing held…
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More important than a work of art itself is what it will sow. Art can die, a painting can disappear.…
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The spectacle of the sky overwhelms me. I'm overwhelmed when I see, in an immense sky, the crescent of the…
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My characters have undergone the same process of simplification as the colors. Now that they have been simplified, they appear…
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The simplest things give me ideas.
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The painting rises from the brushstrokes as a poem rises from the words. The meaning comes later.
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The spectacle of the sky overwhelms me. Im overwhelmed when I see, in an immense sky, the crescent of the…
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Although the noise of the chattering clientele is much more significant than the topics of their chatter, it does finally…
— Joseph Roth
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The music began, passages of immense technical complexity fluidly bridging Caravaggio’s chiaroscuro with Renoir’s impressionism. The gloom and shadows of…
— Ella Leya
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All painting worth its name, unless one is talking about black and white, must include the idea of color as…
— Eugene Delacroix
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Grandeur of effect is produced by two different ways which seem entirely opposed to each other. One is by reducing…
— Joshua Reynolds
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The importance of colour is as nothing compared with that of form, chiaroscuro and arrangement. They are the true and…
— Walter J. Phillips
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The amount of chiaroscuro an idea harbors is the only index of its profundity.
— Emile M. Cioran
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In each of us lie good and bad, light and dark, art and pain, choice and regret, cruelty and sacrifice.…
— Libba Bray
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There are those hearts, reader, that never mend again once they are broken. Or if they do mend, they heal…
— Kate DiCamillo
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The limited fictions used to sell the lives of public figures often form a cloudy chiaroscuro that covers their true…
— William J. Mann
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People are composed of many things, and in my work, what influences me is the complexity of people - the…
— Kirk Douglas
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