Joan Miro Quotes

Joan Miro — Spanish Artist born on April 20, 1893, died on December 25, 1983

Joan Miró i Ferrà was a Spanish painter, sculptor, and ceramicist born in Barcelona. 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... (wikipedia)

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.

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

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

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.

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'.

Joan Miro Quotes

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