Joan Miro
Joan MiroJoan Miro is an artist who holds that a work must be conceived with fire in the soul but executed with clinical coolness.
Joan Miro is an artist who seizes an image the moment it has formed in his mind, to trap it as a bird and to pin it at once to canvas. Afterwards he starts to tame it, to master it, to bring it under control and develop it.
Joan Miro is an artist who uses a small number of forms and colors, a very narrow range of colors like the frescoes of the tenth century.
Joan Miro is an artist who, as he paints, the picture begins to assert itself, or suggest itself, under his brush. As he works, the form becomes a sign for a woman or a bird.
Joan Miro is a painter who tries to apply colors like words that shape poems, like notes that shape music.
The Line is endowed with expressive powers. A simple line painted with the brush can lead to freedom and happiness.
An Object is something living. This cigarette or this box of matches contains a secret life much more intense than that of certain human beings.
The Painting , to be successful, must give off sparks. It must dazzle like the beauty of a woman or a poem.
Progress is blind. If you have any notion of where you are going, you will never get anywhere.
The Studio is a vegetable garden, where things follow their natural course. They grow, they ripen. You have to graft. You have to water..
The Work of art is important for what it will sow. The art itself can die or a painting can disappear, and what counts is the seed.
