You have to graft. Quotes about Miro .

When I stand in front of a canvas, I never know what I’m going to do – and nobody is more surprised than I at what comes out.

This cigarette or this box of matches contains a secret life much more intense than that of certain human beings. "The works must be conceived with fire in the soul but executed with clinical coolness." Each grain of dust contains the soul of something marvellous. I start from something considered dead and arrive at a world. - Joan Miro, The works must be conceived with fire in the soul but executed with clinical coolness.” A form gives me an idea, this idea evokes another form, and everything culminates in figures, animals, and things I had no way of foreseeing in advance.

Below is a selection of our favorite quotes by Miró on the creative process, artistic goals, his inspiration, and his beliefs about old age. I’m heading in new directions. ', art critic Georges Duthuit in. ', and 'The works must be conceived with fire in the soul but executed with clinical coolness.' “ The painting rises from the brushstrokes as a poem rises from the words. In: his 'Foreword', Barcelona 1977; as quoted in. Decoration. Share Joan Miro quotations about painting, canvas and art. There, in my pictures, tiny forms in huge empty spaces. Joan Miró i Ferrà (April 20, 1893 – December 25, 1983) was a Spanish painter, sculptor and ceramist born in Barcelona, Spain. We see ourselves confronted with pure abstraction. Please note that Joan-Miro.net is a private website, unaffiliated with Joan Miro or his representatives, Ladders Cross the Blue Sky in a Wheel of Fire, The Flight of the Dragonfly in Front of the Sun, Cover of Surrealist Journal Minotaure, 1935, Woman Encircled by the Flight of a Bird, 1941, The Flight of the Dragonfly in Front of the Sun, 1968. I begin my paintings because something jolts me away from reality. Joan Miró was born in Spain in 1893 to a family of craftsmen. Art can die, a painting can disappear.

A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step. The more ignoble I find life, the more strongly I react by contradiction, in humour and in an outburst of liberty and expansion. I try to apply colors like words that shape poems, like notes that shape music. Follow AzQuotes on Facebook, Twitter and Google+.

The older I get and the more I master the medium, the more I return to my earliest experiences. I work in a state of passion, transported. The frescoes of the tenth century are painted like this. For me an object is something living.

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. Empty spaces, empty horizons, empty plains - everything which is bare has always greatly impressed me. Share with your friends. Birthdate: 20.

Your face had become dark, and, upon the day's awakening, your ashes will disperse themselves throughout the garden. Have you ever heard of anything more stupid than 'abstraction-abstraction'? I'm overwhelmed when I see, in an immense sky, the crescent of the moon, or the sun. The works must be conceived with fire in the soul but executed with clinical coolness.

I gather them altogether in my studio, which is very large.

Book by Joan Miró, editing by M.Rowell, Thames and Hudson, 1987. I provoke accidents - a form, a splotch of color. It must give birth to a world.. ..it must fertilize the imagination. Everyone was transfixed and totally overwhelmed by it. Quand je me tiens devant une toile, je ne sais jamais ce que je vais faire, et je suis le premier surpris par ce qui sort. She has been with the DAM since June 2013. Yes, it took me just a moment to draw this line with the brush. Do the difficult things while they are easy and do the great things while they are small. December 1983. [Barcelona -, In: a letter to Enric C. Ricart, 1 October 1917; as quoted in, Miro's verbal statement at a [[Surrealism|Surrealist] demonstration, against the supremacy of Classical culture, 1930's, ..wherever you are, you find the sun, a blade of grass, the spirals of the dragonfly. The spectacle of the sky overwhelms me. I shall have to go to Cincinnati in advance as soon as I can, to view the architecture and its environs, because otherwise I would only create an easel painting in large format. I painted in a frenzy, with real violence so that people will know that I am alive, that I’m breathing, that I still have a few more places to go.

This exhibition travels to the DAM from the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía.

What is very important for me is when I work without working….when I walk, when I do nothing, when I eat. More important than a work of art itself is what it will sow. Talent will not: nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Small problems and highly obscure subjects are, if you will, always grand in intention, and the layman would casually and quite undisparagingly trample on them if they were to serve as carpet motifs. thumb|right|catalog-cover of Miró's first exhibition, 1916, https://en.wikiquote.org/w/index.php?title=Joan_Miró&oldid=2811808, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, Let's transplant the primitive soul to the ultramodern New York, inject his soul with the noise of the subway, of the 'el', and may his brain become a long street of buildings 224 stories high.

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- Joan Miro, 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.” For me an object is something living. For me, a painting must give off sparks. I only use the objects I find. Letting fall some drops of turpentine on it would do just as well. Read Joan Miró biography This cigarette or this box of matches contains a secret life much more intense than that of certain human beings.” “ I feel the need of attaining the maximum of intensity with the minimum of means. 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.

You have to water. and they ask me into their deserted house [probably Miro meant the group 'Abstraction-Création', founded by a. o. “ 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.
For me, they are magnificent things. ', Georges Duthuit in. - Joan Miro, Contact Us | Terms of Use | Links I think that at the end of my life I will recover all the force of my childhood.

It must dazzle like the beauty of a woman or a poem. Empty spaces, empty horizons, empty plains – everything that has been stripped bare has always made a strong impression on me. – Joan Miró.

You have to water. Miro came of age as an artist just at the time World War 1. ended. I never make sculptures from sketches, I just put them together.

Then I prepare a ground by, for example, wiping my brushes on the canvas. April 1893 Date of death: 25. « Pour mille problèmes qui ne le préoccupent à aucun degré, bien qu'ils soient ceux dont l'esprit humain est pétri, il n'y a peut-être en Joan Miró qu'un désir : celui de s'abandonner pour peindre, et seulement pour peindre (ce qui pour lui est se restreindre au seul domaine dans lequel nous sommes sûrs qu'il dispose de moyens), à ce pur automatisme auquel je n'ai, pour ma part, jamais cessé de faire appel, … It must dazzle like the beauty of a woman or a poem." Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía. I let the matiere decide. The meaning comes later. I am overwhelmed when I see a crescent moon or the sun in an immense sky. Childhood and magic are married in this poem inscribed in infinity, like traces on walls or cracks in venerable walls, superimposed posters lacerated by wind, rain and poetry; calligraphy and ideograph intermerge in this equation.. ..in this sign.

You have to graft. Quote of Miró in his 'Working notes, 1941 – 1942'; as cited in. If you have any notion of where you are going, you will never get anywhere. This cigarette or this box of matches contains a secret life much more intense than that of certain human beings.
For me an object is something living. This cigarette or this box of matches contains a secret life much more intense than that … Now that they have been simplified, they appear more human and alive than if they had been represented in all their details. My characters have undergone the same process of simplification as the colors.

I begin my work under the effect of shock, which I can sense and which gets me on the run from reality.. .In any case, I need a starting point, even if it’s just a speck of dust or a gleam of light. Empty spaces, empty horizons, empty plains - everything which is bare has always greatly impressed me.

They grow, they ripen. Now that they have been simplified, they appear more human and alive than if they had been represented in all their details.” My characters have undergone the same process of simplification as the colors. Joan Miró’s quotes tell a lot about his development as a young Spanish artist, starting in the Dada art-movement of Barcelona.

I feel the need of attaining the maximum of intensity with the minimum of means.