Joan Miro Quotes - Page 2

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• That which interests me above all else is the calligraphy of a tree or the tiles of a roof, and I mean leaf by leaf, branch by branch, blade by blade of grass.

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  Mean, Tree, Branches

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• The picture should be fecund. It must bring a world to birth.

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  World, Birth, Should

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• I start from something considered dead and arrive at a world. And when I put a title on it, it becomes even more alive.

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  Titles, Alive, World

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• 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.

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  Bird, Mind, Way

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• 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.

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  Small Numbers, Color, Done

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• I work like a labourer on a farm or in a vineyard. Things come to me slowly. My vocabulary of forms, for instance, has not been the discovery of a day. It took shape in spite of myself... That is why I am always working on a hundred different things at the same time.

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  Vocabulary, Discovery, Different

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• I want to assassinate painting.

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  Want, Painting

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• I work like a gardener.

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  Gardener

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• What 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, described with the term 'mute music'.

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  Thinking, Swag, Silence

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• 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.

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  Light, Dazzle, Sparks

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• Throughout 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.

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  Emotion, Canvas, Born

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• 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.

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  Depth, Movement, Limits

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• 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.

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  Bird, Firsts, Painting

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• 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.

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  Religious, Art, Hands

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• 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.

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  Example, Littles, Chance

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• 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.

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  Reality, Light, Dust

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• 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.

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  Mean, Impact, Expression

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• What I will no longer accept is the mediocre life of a modest little gentleman.

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  Gentleman, Littles, Mediocre Life

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• My tendency towards bareness and simplification has been practiced in three fields: modeling, colors, and the figuration of the personages.

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  Color, Simplicity, Three

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