“I begin my pictures under the effect of a shock which I feel and which makes me escape from reality... I need a point of departure, even if it's only a speck of dust or a flash of light.” IfsNeedsFeelsRealityLightEffectsDustShockFlashDepartureSpecks 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
“If you have any notion of where you are going, you will never get anywhere.” IfsNotionWhere You AreWhere You Are Going Author:Joan Miro
“My characters have undergone the same process of simplification as the colors. Now that they have been simplified, they appear more human and alive than if they had been represented in all their details.” IfsHumansHas BeensCharacterArtistProcessAliveColorDetailsSimplification Author:Joan Miro
