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.
secret intense cigarette
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.
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.
inspirational motivational fire
The works must be conceived with fire in the soul but executed with clinical coolness.
inspirational photography thinking
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.
want
The more I work, the more I want to work.
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.
bird mind way
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.
silence movement eloquence
What I am seeking... is a motionless movement, something equivalent to what is called the eloquence of silence...
simple drawing freedom-and-happiness
A simple line painted with the brush can lead to freedom and happiness.
giving dazzle sparks
For me, a painting must give off sparks. It must dazzle like the beauty of a woman or a poem.
painting distinction
I make no distinction between poetry and painting.