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
want painting
I want to assassinate painting,
bird firsts painting
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.
painting distinction
I make no distinction between poetry and painting.
firsts painting canvas
When I stand before a canvas, I never know what I'll do, and I am the first one surprised at what comes out.
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.
painting
The painting rises from the brushstrokes as a poem rises from the words. The meaning comes later.
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."