“A modeled form is less striking than one which is not. Modeling prevents shock and limits movement to the visual depth. Without modeling or chiaroscuro depth is limitless: movement can stretch to infinity.” FormMovementLimitsDepthVisualsShockInfinityModelingLimitlessChiaroscuro Author:Joan Miro
“I work like a labourer on a farm or in a vineyard. Things come to me slowly. My vocabulary of forms, for instance, has not been the discovery of a day. It took shape in spite of myself... That is why I am always working on a hundred different things at the same time.” DifferentFormShapesHundredDiscoveryInstanceSpiteDifferent ThingsFarmsVocabularyVineyardsAlways WorkingLabourers Author:Joan Miro
“Never, never do I set to work on a canvas in the state it comes in from the shop. I provoke accidents - a form, a splotch of color. Any accident is good enough. I let the matiere decide. Then I prepare a ground by, for example, wiping my brushes on the canvas. Letting fall some drops of turpentine on it would do just as well. If I want to make a drawing I crumple the sheet of paper or I wet it; the flowing water traces a line and this line may suggest what is to come next.” IfsWantWellsMayStatesEnoughFormFallNextWaterLinesExampleColorPaperAccidentsDrawingShopsGood EnoughWetCanvasProvokingBrushesSheetsFlowing Water Author:Joan Miro
“I begin painting and as I paint the picture begins to assert itself, or suggest itself, under my brush. The form becomes a sign for a woman or a bird as I work... The first stage is free, unconscious... the second stage is carefully calculated.” FirstsFormStagePaintingBirdPaintUnconsciousBrushes Author:Joan Miro
“The spectacle of the sky overwhelms me. Im overwhelmed when I see, in an immense sky, the crescent of the moon, or the sun. There, in my pictures, tiny forms in huge empty spaces. Empty spaces, empty horizons, empty plains - everything which is bare has always greatly impressed me.” FormSpaceSunSkyHugeMoonEmptyTinyHorizonImmenseImpressedOverwhelmedEmpty SpaceCrescent Author:Joan Miro
“Little by little, I've reached the stage of using only a small number of forms and colors. It's not the first time that painting has been done with a very narrow range of colors. The frescoes of the tenth century are painted like this. For me, they are magnificent things.” FirstsLittlesHas BeensDoneFormNumbersCenturyStageColorPaintingFirst TimeRangeMagnificentSmall Numbers Author:Joan Miro
