"My way is to seize an image the……" — Joan Miro
"My way is to seize an image the moment it has formed in my mind, to trap it as a bird and to pin it at once to canvas. Afterward I start to tame it, to master it. I bring it under control and I develop it."
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38 Quotes by Joan Miro
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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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