Joan Miró

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

You can look at a picture for a week and never think of it again. You can also look at a picture for a second and think of it all your life.

A work of art must be conceived with fire in the soul but executed with clinical coolness.

I want to murder painting.

The more I work, the more I want to work. I'm like a child who wants to play all the time.

For me, an object is a living thing. This cigarette butt, this matchbox, this glass, this little piece of paper, they are all alive.

I dream of a grand, anonymous, and monumental art.

I work like a gardener.

It is not enough for painting to be beautiful. It must also be true.

I want to get to the point where I don't know how to paint, but I do.

My canvases are like children, they are born, they grow, they live, they die.

I have always been fascinated by the primitive, by the archaic, by the elemental.

The artist must be a poet.

I never paint dreams. I paint reality.

I want to go beyond the easel, beyond the frame, to the wall, to the street, to the sky.

Art is a way of life.

I work in a state of trance, like a medium.

I don't believe in genius. I believe in work, perseverance, and passion.

The artist must be a rebel.

I want to create a new language, a new alphabet.