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
art character mean
I 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.
religious art hands
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 wind making-love
Painting or poetry is made as one makes love - a total embrace, prudence thrown to the winds, nothing held back.
art color trying
I try to apply colors like words that shape poems, like notes that shape music.
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.
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.
gardener
I work like a gardener.
reality dust light
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.
littles example cleaning
I throw down the gauntlet to chance. For example, I prepare the ground for a picture by cleaning my brush over the canvas. Spilling a little turpentine can also be helpful.
liberty expansion contradiction
The more ignoble I find life, the more strongly I react by contradiction, in humour and in an outburst of liberty and expansion.
light burning use
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.
world birth should
The picture should be fecund. It must bring a world to birth.
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."
imagination giving world
Painting must be fertile. It must give birth to a world.. ..it must fertilize the imagination.