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What I will no longer accept is the mediocre life of a modest little gentleman.

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

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

The simplest things give me ideas.

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

What I am looking for... is an immobile movement, something which would be the equivalent of what is...

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

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Joan Miró

Painter

Born: 1893-04-20

Died: 1983-12-25

Joan Miró i Ferrà (April 20, 1893 – December 25, 1983) was a Spanish painter, sculptor and ceramist born in Barcelona, Spain. His work has been interpreted as Surrealism, a sandbox for the subconscious mind, a re-creation of the childlike, and a manifestation of Catalan and Spanish pride.More