Joan Miro Quotes

• I will break their guitar.

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• I intend to destroy, destroy everything that exists in painting. I have utter contempt for painting.

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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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• I try to apply colors like words that shape poems, like notes that shape music.

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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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• The works must be conceived with fire in the soul but executed with clinical coolness.

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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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• 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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• 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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Birth:	20th April, 1893
Death:	25th December, 1983
Nationality:	Spanish
Profession:	Painter, Sculptor

About

Joan Miró i Ferrà was born in Barcelona, Spain. He was a Spanish painter and sculptor. 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. Earning international acclaim, his work has been interpreted as Surrealism, a sandbox for the subconscious mind, a re-creation of the childlike, and a manifestation of Catalan pride. He studied in the Escuela de Bellas Artes de Llotja from 1907, despite this being against his father's wishes. His artworks (painting) shown below: Prades, the Village, Portrait of Vincent Nubiola, House with Palm Tree, Horse, Pipe and Red Flower, The Farm, The Tilled Field, The Hunter, The Harlequin's Carnival, The Birth of the World, Personages with Star, Hirondelle Amour, Man and Woman in Front of a Pile of Excrement, Still Life with Old Shoe, The Reaper, The Beautiful Bird Revealing the Unknown to a Pair of Lovers, Woman in Front of the Sun, Women and Bird in the Moonlight, Triptych Bleu I, II, III, and May 1968. His artworks (Sculptor) shown below: Lunar Bird, Miró's Chicago, and Dona i Ocell (with Joan Gardy Artigas).

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