"My tendency towards bareness and simplification has been……" — Joan Miro
"My tendency towards bareness and simplification has been practiced in three fields: modeling, colors, and the figuration of the personages."
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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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More Bareness Quotes
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I feel the need of attaining the maximum of intensity with the minimum of means. It is this which has…
— Joan Miro
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One comes to bless the absolute bareness, feeling that here is a pure beauty of form, a kind of ultimate…
— George Leigh Mallory
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If above all things we would taste God, and feel eternal life in ourselves, we must go forth into God…
— John of Ruysbroeck
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A man must be clothed with society, or we shall feel a certain bareness and poverty, as of a displaced…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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It is the bareness of drawing that I like. The act of drawing is what locates, suggests, discovers. At times…
— Philip Guston
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I brought color to bridal. There was one whole season of blush. If you think about the bareness, the illusion…
— Vera Wang
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It struck him that the truly characteristic thing about modern life was not its cruelty and insecurity, but simply its…
— George Orwell
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He turns toward me. I want to touch him, but I’m afraid of his bareness; afraid that he will make…
— Veronica Roth
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Simplicity should not be identified with bareness.
— Felix Adler
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I not only want the bareness of your body. I want the bareness of your heart and soul.
— Alfredo C
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How like a winter hath my absence been. From thee, the pleasure of the fleeting year! What freezings have I…
— William Shakespeare
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