Joan Miro Quotes
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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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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."
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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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The picture should be fecund. It must bring a world to birth.
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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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My 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 represented in all their details.
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The painting rises from the brushstrokes as a poem rises from the words. The meaning comes later.
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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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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.
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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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The simplest things give me ideas.
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I try to apply colors like words that shape poems, like notes that shape music.
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The 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. Empty spaces, empty horizons, empty plains - everything which is bare has always greatly impressed me.
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Painting must be fertile. It must give birth to a world.. ..it must fertilize the imagination.
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The works must be conceived with fire in the soul but executed with clinical coolness.
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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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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.
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When I stand before a canvas, I never know what I'll do, and I am the first one surprised at what comes out.
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A simple line painted with the brush can lead to freedom and happiness.
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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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Painting or poetry is made as one makes love - a total embrace, prudence thrown to the winds, nothing held back.
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For me, a painting must give off sparks. It must dazzle like the beauty of a woman or a poem.
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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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The more I work, the more I want to work.
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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.
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What I am seeking... is a motionless movement, something equivalent to what is called the eloquence of silence.
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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.
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If you have any notion of where you are going, you will never get anywhere.
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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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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.
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