Joan Miró quotes - page 2

Joan Miró was a Spanish painter, sculptor, and ceramicist, widely recognized for his influential contributions to modern art. His works are known for their whimsical forms, vibrant colors, and symbolic vocabulary. He became a leading figure in the Surrealist movement and inspired generations of artists worldwide. Here are 33 of his quotes:

Your face had become dark, and, upon the day's awakening, your ashes will disperse themselves throughout the garden. Your ashes will fly to the sky, to make love with the stars. Sandy, Sandy, your ashes caress the rainbow flowers that tickle the blue of the sky. [short poem of Miro, on the death of his good old art-paw, the inventor of the 'mobile', Sandy Calder ].

Joan Miró

Have you ever heard of anything more stupid than 'abstraction-abstraction?'

Joan Miró

.. wherever you are, you find the sun, a blade of grass, the spirals of the dragonfly. Courage consists of staying at home, close to nature, which could not care less about our disasters. Each grain of dust contains the soul of something marvellous.

Joan Miró

[the canvas.. ] rubbing in with a handful of straw, with a rag, a scrubbing brush, a Majorcan brush for applying white, with the hand, etc.... [a drawing in a] gigantic rhythm like that of a waterfall cascading down a mountainside.... [works based on] pure signs begun in Varensgeville and finished in Palma.... [with a picture ground of] blue vitriol [a pesticide] that they use for the vines and that splashes against the walls of the farmhouse..

Joan Miró

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.

Joan Miró

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.

Joan Miró

..wherever you are, you find the sun, a blade of grass, the spirals of the dragonfly. Courage consists of staying at home, close to nature, which could not care less about our disasters. Each grain of dust contains the soul of something marvellous. [Miró admonished art-critic w:Georges Duthuit ].

Joan Miró