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
where-you-are-going where-you-are notion
If you have any notion of where you are going, you will never get anywhere.
silence movement eloquence
What I am seeking... is a motionless movement, something equivalent to what is called the eloquence of silence...
want
The more I work, the more I want to work.
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.
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.
fall color drawing
Never, never do I set to work on a canvas in the state it comes in from the shop. I provoke accidents - a form, a splotch of color. Any accident is good enough. I let the matiere decide. Then I prepare a ground by, for example, wiping my brushes on the canvas. Letting fall some drops of turpentine on it would do just as well. If I want to make a drawing I crumple the sheet of paper or I wet it; the flowing water traces a line and this line may suggest what is to come next.
inspirational motivational fire
The works must be conceived with fire in the soul but executed with clinical coolness.
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.
art color trying
I try to apply colors like words that shape poems, like notes that shape music.
blood making-love done
Poetry and painting are done in the same way you make love; it's an exchange of blood, a total embrace - without caution, without any thought of protecting yourself.
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.
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.
art important painting
More important than a work of art itself is what it will sow. Art can die, a painting can disappear. What counts is the seed.