"The more ignoble I find life, the more……" — Joan Miro
"The more ignoble I find life, the more strongly I react by contradiction, in humour and in an outburst of liberty and expansion."
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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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This contradiction lies here: they wish God, and they wish humanity. They persist in connecting two terms which, once separated,…
— Mikhail Bakunin
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He hoped and prayed that there wasn't an afterlife. Then he realized there was a contradiction involved here and merely…
— Douglas Adams
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What I claim is to live to the full the contradiction of my time, which may well make sarcasm the…
— Roland Barthes
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I believe that truth has only one face: that of a violent contradiction.
— Georges Bataille
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Do what you will, this world's a fiction and is made up of contradiction.
— William Blake
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Everything tends to make us believe that there exists a certain point of the mind at which life and death,…
— Andre Breton
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I never saw a contradiction between the ideas that sustain me and the ideas of that symbol, of that extraordinary…
— Fidel Castro
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I thought I would dress in baggy pants, big shoes, a cane and a derby hat. everything a contradiction: the…
— Charlie Chaplin
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Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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The reserve of modern assertions is sometimes pushed to extremes, in which the fear of being contradicted leads the writer…
— Winston Churchill
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It was easier for me to think of a world without a creator than of a creator loaded with all…
— Simone de Beauvoir
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...the Bible is such a book of lies and contradictions there is no knowing which part to believe or whether…
— Thomas Paine
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