Joan Miro Quotes

I've never worried about being rich or famous - for me, it's all about the dancing.

Art gives us the illusion of liberation from the sordid business of being.

A drawing is simply a line going for a walk.

There's something about singing that I just love. It makes me feel freer than anything in the world.

I love to draw and paint - that's what makes me happy.

Dance was my escape from reality.

Art is not the kind of thing where you get what you put into it all the time. So I learned to not expect anything other than the sort of joy of having a poem in front of me.

Music is a spiritual event and a means to realize freedom.

When I draw, I always recall my mindset when I was a child.

Art is, after all, only a trace – like a footprint which shows that one has walked bravely and in great happiness.

Sing in the shower. Dance to the radio. Tell stories. Write a poem to a friend, even a lousy poem. Do it as well as you possibly can. You will get an enormous reward. You will have created something.

Art! What a concept! It saved my life! A place where you can do as you please!

Art is the method of levitation, in order to separate one's self from enslavement by the earth.

Dance constitutes a true recapturing of... freedom and childish play.

Are democracy and poetry exclusive of one another and, if so, why?

Art is the set of wings to carry you out of your own entanglement.

I understand that people are afraid. Because I think censorship is about fear. It's just fear being projected onto art.

Life is serious but art is fun!

I just want to paint and say what I'm going to say.

When I paint I am ageless, I just have the pleasure or the difficulty of painting.

Dance expresses joy better than anything else.

Singing provides a true sense of lightheartedness. If I sing when I am alone, I feel wonderful. It's freedom.

The only thing that ultimately matters is to eat an ice-cream cone, play a slide trombone, plant a small tree, good God, now you're free.

I love to create, and to me, the ultimate freedom of expression is a blank canvas or a block of clay to capture whatever emotions your imagination gives it.

I will preach with my brush.