Joan Miró

“The spectacle of the sky overwhelms me.”

“I feel the need to achieve the maximum intensity with the minimum of means.”

“I want to assassinate painting.”

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

“For me, an object is something that lives. It's a living thing.”

“A painting must be fertile. It must give birth to a world.”

“The more I work, the more I want to work. I have a passion for work.”

“I begin drawing and as I draw the painting begins to assert itself, or suggest itself, under my hand.”

“What is important is not so much what I want to say, but what I don't want to say.”

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

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

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

“I need a starting point, even if it's just a speck of dust or a flash of light.”

“My characters have undergone the same process of simplification as the colors.”