"Little by little, I've reached the stage of……" — Joan Miro
"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 been done with a very narrow range of colors. The frescoes of the tenth century are painted like this. For me, they are magnificent things."
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38 Quotes by Joan Miro
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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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