“My way is to seize an image the moment it has formed in my mind, to trap it as a bird and to pin it at once to canvas. Afterward I start to tame it, to master it. I bring it under control and I develop it.” WayMindMomentsMastersBirdMy WayTrapsCanvasPinsMethodology Author:Joan Miro
“Qualityless simply means there is no way to discuss it. There is no way to pin it down. It could be anything at any given moment since infinity is not bound even by itself, nor the words that human beings choose to try and talk around it.” WayTryingHumansMeanMomentsGivenHuman BeingsBoundsInfinityNothingnessPins Author:Frederick Lenz
“No doubt other writers have often put a thing more brilliantly, more subtly than even a very cunning artist in words can hope to emulate, a supreme phrase being a bit of luck that only happens now and then. And inasmuch as the condiments and secret travail of human nature are always the same, and that certain psychological moments must ever and ever recur, what more tempting than to pin down such a moment with the blow of a borrowed hammer?” HumansMomentsHappensArtistCertainBitsSecretDoubtHuman NatureLuckBlowSupremePsychologicalPhrasesNo DoubtNow And ThenQuotationsCunningHammersPinsBorrowedEmulateTemptingCondiments Author:Ethel Smyth