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Joan Miró

If there’s anything humorous about my painting, it’s not been consciously sought. The humor comes, perhaps, from the need I feel to escape the tragic side of my temperament.

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genius joan miró

You have to know how to master fire when you work with ceramics.

genius joan miró

I work for a long time, sometimes years, on the same canvas. But all this time, there are periods, sometimes quite long, when I’m not doing anything with it.

genius joan miró

When a painting doesn’t satisfy me, I feel physical distress, as if ill, as if my heart isn’t working properly, as if I can’t breathe and am suffocating.

genius joan miró

Empty spaces, empty horizons, empty plains – everything bare has always greatly impressed me.

genius joan miró

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

genius joan miró

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