Joan Miro Professions : Painter Born : April 20, 1893 Died : December 25, 1983 Browse All Authors Top 44 quotes by Joan Miro You can look at a picture for a week and never think of it again. You can also look at the picture for a second and think of it all your life. Joan Miro photography inspirational thinking The painting rises from the brushstrokes as a poem rises from the words. The meaning comes later. Joan Miro painting artist A simple line painted with the brush can lead to freedom and happiness. Joan Miro freedom-and-happiness drawing simple If you have any notion of where you are going, you will never get anywhere. Joan Miro where-you-are-going where-you-are notion I try to apply colors like words that shape poems, like notes that shape music. Joan Miro color trying art More important than a work of art itself is what it will sow. Art can die, a painting can disappear. What counts is the seed. Joan Miro painting important art When I stand before a canvas, I never know what I'll do, and I am the first one surprised at what comes out. Joan Miro canvas painting firsts Poetry and painting are done in the same way you make love; it's an exchange of blood, a total embrace - without caution, without any thought of protecting yourself. Joan Miro making-love done blood To gain freedom is to gain simplicity. Joan Miro simplicity gains Painting must be fertile. It must give birth to a world.. ..it must fertilize the imagination. Joan Miro imagination giving world For me an object is something living. This cigarette or this box of matches contains a secret life much more intense than that of certain human beings. Joan Miro cigarette intense secret What I am seeking... is a motionless movement, something equivalent to what is called the eloquence of silence. Joan Miro eloquence movement silence The works must be conceived with fire in the soul but executed with clinical coolness. Joan Miro fire motivational inspirational I think of my studio as a vegetable garden, where things follow their natural course. They grow, they ripen. You have to graft. You have to water. Joan Miro garden vegetables thinking Never, never do I set to work on a canvas in the state it comes in from the shop. I provoke accidents - a form, a splotch of color. Any accident is good enough. I let the matiere decide. Then I prepare a ground by, for example, wiping my brushes on the canvas. Letting fall some drops of turpentine on it would do just as well. If I want to make a drawing I crumple the sheet of paper or I wet it; the flowing water traces a line and this line may suggest what is to come next. Joan Miro drawing color fall The more ignoble I find life, the more strongly I react by contradiction, in humour and in an outburst of liberty and expansion. Joan Miro expansion contradiction liberty I believe that to do anything in this world one needs a love for risk and adventure, and above all, to be able to do without what middle-class families call "future." Joan Miro courage adventure believe The spectacle of the sky overwhelms me. Im overwhelmed when I see, in an immense sky, the crescent of the moon, or the sun. There, in my pictures, tiny forms in huge empty spaces. Empty spaces, empty horizons, empty plains - everything which is bare has always greatly impressed me. Joan Miro space moon sky The more I work, the more I want to work. Joan Miro want For me, a painting must give off sparks. It must dazzle like the beauty of a woman or a poem. Joan Miro sparks dazzle giving Similar Authors Barry McGee painter Brion Gysin painter Bridget Riley painter Boris Vallejo painter Allan Kaprow painter Augustus John painter All Authors
