List of Joan Miro Quotes

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Joan Miro
Total Quotes 44
My tendency towards bareness and simplification has been practiced in three fields: modeling, colors, and the figuration of the personages.
Color Simplicity Three
What i will no longer accept is the mediocre life of a modest little gentleman.
Gentleman Littles Mediocre Life
As regards my means of expression, i try my hardest to achieve the maximum of clarity, power, and plastic aggressiveness; a physical sensation to begin with, followed up by an impact on the psyche.
Mean Impact Expression
The picture should be fecund. it must bring a world to birth.
World Birth Should
Throughout the time in which i am working on a canvas i can feel how i am beginning to love it, with that love which is born of slow comprehension.
Emotion Canvas Born
I feel the need of attaining the maximum of intensity with the minimum of means. it is this which has led me to give my painting a character of even greater bareness.
Art Character Mean
I begin my pictures under the effect of a shock which i feel and which makes me escape from reality... i need a point of departure, even if it's only a speck of dust or a flash of light.
Reality Light Dust
Art class was like a religious ceremony to me. i would wash my hands carefully before touching paper or pencils. the instruments of work were sacred objects to me.
Religious Art Hands
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.
Small Numbers Color Done
Painting or poetry is made as one makes love - a total embrace, prudence thrown to the winds, nothing held back.
Art Wind Making Love
I start from something considered dead and arrive at a world. and when i put a title on it, it becomes even more alive.
Titles Alive World
I throw down the gauntlet to chance. for example, i prepare the ground for a picture by cleaning my brush over the canvas. spilling a little turpentine can also be helpful.
Example Littles Chance
  • Born: April 20, 1893
  • Died: December 25, 1983
  • Occupation: Painter
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