Joan Miró Quotes
Best 8 Quotes by Joan Miró
“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'.”
“If you have any notion of where you are going, you will never get anywhere.”
“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.”
“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.”
“The more I work, the more I want to work.”
“To gain freedom is to gain simplicity.”
“When I stand before a canvas, I never know what I'll do, and I am the first one surprised at what comes out.”
“You can look at a picture for a week and never think of it again. You can also look at the picture for a second and think of it all your life.”
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“I don't know why you'd want to say your work comes from nature, because art is related to perception, not nature. All abstract artists try to tell you that what they do comes from nature, and I'm always trying to tell you that what I do is completely abstract. We're both saying something we want to be true.”
