Joan MiroThe works must be conceived with fire in the soul but executed with clinical coolness.363Thought
Joan MiroThe painting rises from the brushstrokes as a poem rises from the words. The meaning comes later.365PhilosophySadness
Joan MiroPainting or poetry is made as one makes love - a total embrace, prudence thrown to the winds, nothing held back.355LoveSadness
Joan MiroMy characters have undergone the same process of simplification as the colors. Now that they have been simplified, they appear more human and alive than if they had been represent… ▶355HumanityLifeTime
Joan MiroMore important than a work of art itself is what it will sow. Art can die, a painting can disappear. What counts is the seed.324DeathSadness
Joan MiroWhat I am looking for... is an immobile movement, something which would be the equivalent of what is called the eloquence of silence, or what St. John of the Cross, I think it was… ▶348Thought
Joan MiroLittle 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. … ▶326SadnessTime
Joan MiroI 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.274Sadness
Joan MiroFor 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.318HumanityLife
Joan MiroI 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.265HopeLoveTime
Joan MiroI make no distinction between poetry and painting.255Sadness
Joan MiroI want to assassinate painting.211Sadness
Joan MiroThe simplest things give me ideas.288Thought
Joan MiroThe 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.… ▶192Hope
Joan MiroWhen I stand before a canvas, I never know what I'll do, and I am the first one surprised at what comes out.249Life
Joan MiroI try to apply colors like words that shape poems, like notes that shape music. ✨ Joan Miro: Selected Writings and Interviews. Book by Joan Miró, editing by M.Rowell,… ▶228Reading
Joan MiroYou 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.155LifeThought
Joan MiroThroughout 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.189LoveTime
Joan MiroA simple line painted with the brush can lead to freedom and happiness.146Sadness
