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Joan Miro Quotes: For me 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.
         

For me 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.


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



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You can look at a picture for a week and never think of it again. You can also look at the picture for a second and think of it all your life.



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

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



More important than a work of art itself is what it will sow. Art can die, a painting can disappear. What counts is the seed.

More important than a work of art itself is what it will sow. Art can die, a painting can disappear. What counts is the seed.



Poetry and painting are done in the same way you make love; it's an exchange of blood, a total embrace - without caution, without any thought of protecting yourself.

Poetry and painting are done in the same way you make love; it's an exchange of blood, a total embrace - without caution, without any thought of protecting yourself.



To gain freedom is to gain simplicity.

To gain freedom is to gain simplicity.



If you have any notion of where you are going, you will never get anywhere.

If you have any notion of where you are going, you will never get anywhere.



When I stand before a canvas, I never know what I'll do, and I am the first one surprised at what comes out.

When I stand before a canvas, I never know what I'll do, and I am the first one surprised at what comes out.



What I am seeking... is a motionless movement, something equivalent to what is called the eloquence of silence.

What I am seeking... is a motionless movement, something equivalent to what is called the eloquence of silence.



I think of my studio as a vegetable garden, where things follow their natural course. They grow, they ripen. You have to graft. You have to water.

I think of my studio as a vegetable garden, where things follow their natural course. They grow, they ripen. You have to graft. You have to water.





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