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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.

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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

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

genius 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.

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.