Painting must be fertile. It must give birth to a world. . . . it must fertilize the … - Joan Miro

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One must be willing to stand alone - in the unknown, with no reference to authority or the past or any of one's conditioning. One must stand where no one has stood before in complete nakedness, innocence, and humility.

Joan Miro

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

Giving, Imagination, World, Fertilize, Give, Painting

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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.

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

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

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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.

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