Joan Miro Art Quotations

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

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.

Art class was like a religious ceremony to me. I would wash my hands carefully before touching paper or pencils. The instruments of work were sacred objects to me.

Painting or poetry is made as one makes love - a total embrace, prudence thrown to the winds, nothing held back.

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.