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Joan Miró i Ferrà (Catalan: [ʒuˈan miˈɾo i fəˈra]; 20 April 1893 – 25 December 1983) was a Spanish painter, sculptor, and ceramicist born in Barcelona. A museum dedicated to his work, the Fundació Joan Miró, was established in his native city of Barcelona in 1975, and another, the Fundació Pilar i Joan Miró, was established in his adoptive city of Palma de Mallorca in 1981.

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For me, a picture should be like sparks. It must dazzle like the beauty of a woman or a poem. It must have radiance; it must be like those stones which Pyrenean shepherds use to light their pipes.

Burning, Light, Pyrenean, Shepherds, Use

Painting or poetry is made as one makes love - a total embrace, prudence thrown to the winds, nothing held back.

Art, Making Love, Thrown, Total, Wind, Winds

The spectacle of the sky overwhelms me. I'm overwhelmed when I see, in an immense sky, the crescent of the moon or the sun.

Art, Immense, Moon, Overwhelms, See, Sky

The works must be conceived with fire in the soul but executed with clinical coolness.

Inspirational, Motivational, Fire, Executed, Conceived, Works

I make no distinction between poetry and painting.

Distinction, Make, Painting, Poetry

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.

Blood, Done, Making Love, Way

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

Firsts, Painting, Canvas, Surprised, Stand

My tendency towards bareness and simplification has been practiced in three fields: modeling, colors, and the figuration of the personages.

Color, Practiced, Simplicity, Simplification, Tendency, Three

That which interests me above all else is the calligraphy of a tree or the tiles of a roof, and I mean leaf by leaf, branch by branch, blade by blade of grass.

Branch, Branches, Grass, Mean, Tree

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.

Cigarette, Contains, Intense, Object, Secret

I try to apply colors like words that shape poems, like notes that shape music.

Apply, Art, Color, Like, Music, Trying

Art class was like a religious ceremony to me. I would wash my hands carefully before touching paper or pencils. The instruments of work were sacred objects to me.

Art, Hands, Religious, Sacred

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.

Artist, Character, Color, Details, Process, Undergone

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.

Different, Discovery, Things, Took, Vocabulary

Throughout the time in which I am working on a canvas I can feel how I am beginning to love it, with that love which is born of slow comprehension.

Born, Canvas, Emotion, Working

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.

Assert, Bird, Firsts, Painting, Picture, Stage

The more I work, the more I want to work.

Want, Work

Painting must be fertile. It must give birth to a world. . . . it must fertilize the imagination.

Giving, Imagination, World, Fertilize, Give, Painting

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

Artist, Meaning, Painting, Poem, Rises

I start from something considered dead and arrive at a world. And when I put a title on it, it becomes even more alive.

Alive, Dead, Start, Title, Titles, World

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