Quotes by Joan Miro

Joan Miro

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.

Depth

Limits

Movement

A simple line painted with the brush can lead to freedom and happiness.

Drawing

Freedom And Happiness

Simple

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.

Art

Hands

Religious

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.

Expression

Impact

Mean

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.

Cigarette

Intense

Secret

For me, a painting must give off sparks. It must dazzle like the beauty of a woman or a poem.

Dazzle

Giving

Sparks

For me, a picture should be like sparks. It must dazzle like the beauty of a woman or a poem. It must have radiance; it must be like those stones which Pyrenean shepherds use to light their pipes.

Dazzle

Light

Sparks

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.

Dust

Light

Reality

I begin painting and as I paint the picture begins to assert itself, or suggest itself, under my brush. The form becomes a sign for a woman or a bird as I work… The first stage is free, unconscious… the second stage is carefully calculated.

Bird

Firsts

Painting

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.”

Adventure

Believe

Courage

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Adventure

Alive

Art

Artist

Believe

Bird

Birth

Blood

Born

Branches

Canvas

Chance

Character

Cigarette

Color

Contradiction

Courage

Dazzle

Depth

Different

Discovery

Distinction

Done

Drawing

Dust

Eloquence

Emotion

Example

Expansion

Expression

Fall

Fire

Firsts

Freedom And Happiness

Gains

Garden

Gardener

Gentleman

Giving

Hands

Ideas

Imagination

Impact

Important

Inspirational

Intense

Liberty

Light

Limits

Littles

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Quotes by Joan Miro

Joan Miro

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.

A simple line painted with the brush can lead to freedom and happiness.

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.

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.

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.

For me, a painting must give off sparks. It must dazzle like the beauty of a woman or a poem.

For me, a picture should be like sparks. It must dazzle like the beauty of a woman or a poem. It must have radiance; it must be like those stones which Pyrenean shepherds use to light their pipes.

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.

I begin painting and as I paint the picture begins to assert itself, or suggest itself, under my brush. The form becomes a sign for a woman or a bird as I work… The first stage is free, unconscious… the second stage is carefully calculated.

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.”

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