Joan Miró on Art
Browse 5 quotations attributed to Joan Miró, catalogued under art, with dates where available.
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Attributed to Joan Miró, entry #149740: "Painting must be fertile. It must give birth to a world.. ..it must fertilize the imagination."
Attributed to Joan Miró, entry #182188: "When I first saw Calder's art very long ago I thought it was good, but not art."
5 Quotes by Joan Miró on Art
"Painting must be fertile. It must give birth to a world.. ..it must fertilize the imagination."
"When I first saw Calder's art very long ago I thought it was good, but not art."
"In the current struggle I see the antiquated forces of fascism on one side, and on the other, those of the people, whose immense creative resources will give Spain a drive that will amaze the world."
"How did I think up my drawings and my ideas for painting? Well I'd come home to my Paris studio in Rue Blomet at night, I'd go to bed, and sometimes I hadn't any supper. I saw things, and I jotted them down in a notebook. I saw shapes on the ceiling.."
"I have thought a lot about the question of titles. I must confess that I find any for works that take off from an arbitrary starting point and end with something real.. .. real things.. .. not evoke some tendency or other, something I want to avoid completely . ."