Inspirational Quotes, Motivational Sayings, and Wise Words for Daily Inspiration

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Never, never do I set to work on a canvas in the state it comes in from the shop. I provoke accidents - a form, a splotch of color. Any accident is good enough. I let the matiere decide. Then I prepare a ground by, for example, wiping my brushes on the canvas. Letting fall some drops of turpentine on it would do just as well. If I want to make a drawing I crumple the sheet of paper or I wet it; the flowing water traces a line and this line may suggest what is to come next.

Joan Miro's Popular Quotes

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.

- Joan Miro

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

- Joan Miro

What I am seeking... is a motionless movement, something equivalent to what is called the eloquence of silence.

- Joan Miro

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.

- Joan Miro

When I stand before a canvas, I never know what I'll do, and I am the first one surprised at what comes out.

- Joan Miro

If you have any notion of where you are going, you will never get anywhere.

- Joan Miro

A simple line painted with the brush can lead to freedom and happiness.

- Joan Miro

To gain freedom is to gain simplicity.

- Joan Miro

The painting rises from the brushstrokes as a poem rises from the words. The meaning comes later.

- Joan Miro