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

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

- 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

To gain freedom is to gain simplicity.

- Joan Miro

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

- Joan Miro

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

- Joan Miro