Joan Miro
Joan Miro
Joan Miró i Ferràwas a Spanish painter, sculptor, and ceramicist born in Barcelona. A museum dedicated to his work, the Fundació Joan Miró, was established in his native city of Barcelona in 1975, and another, the Fundació Pilar i Joan Miró, was established in his adoptive city of Palma de Mallorca in 1981...
NationalitySpanish
ProfessionArtist
Date of Birth20 April 1893
CountrySpain
Joan Miro quotes about
picture second week
You can look at a picture for a week an never think of it again. You can also look at a picture for a second and think of it all your life.
painting
The painting rises from the brushstrokes as a poem rises from the words. The meaning comes later.
simplicity gains
To gain freedom is to gain simplicity.
small-numbers color done
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.
garden thinking vegetables
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.
simple drawing freedom-and-happiness
A simple line painted with the brush can lead to freedom and happiness.
painting distinction
I make no distinction between poetry and painting.
firsts painting canvas
When I stand before a canvas, I never know what I'll do, and I am the first one surprised at what comes out.
gentleman littles mediocre-life
What I will no longer accept is the mediocre life of a modest little gentleman.
depth movement limits
A modeled form is less striking than one which is not. Modeling prevents shock and limits movement to the visual depth. Without modeling or chiaroscuro depth is limitless: movement can stretch to infinity.
courage believe adventure
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."
where-you-are-going where-you-are notion
If you have any notion of where you are going, you will never get anywhere.
gardener
I work like a gardener.