Joan Miro Quotes

I'm a sponge, the more I absorb, the more I am able to articulate my vision, as artists do, like Picasso. I'm an artist in that light. I went from being an artist to an artiste.

How certain human beings are able to create works of art is a mystery, and why they should wish to do so, at a great cost to themselves usually, is another mystery. Works are not created by one's life; every life is rich in material.

I'm very interested to see how this new painting will go - I know I want it big and stark, and as I said, I follow the muse, and that's when it always works perfectly for me.

A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art.

An artist is a dreamer consenting to dream of the actual world.

An artist is always alone - if he is an artist. No, what the artist needs is loneliness.

In my experience a painting is not made with colors and paint at all. I don't know what a painting is; who knows what sets off even the desire to paint?

If Monsieur X spent an eternity studying treatises on optics, he would never paint 'La Grande Jatte.'

Music breeds its own inspiration. You can only do it by doing it. You may not feel like it, but you push yourself. It's a work process. Or just improvise. Something will come.

To make art you need to be inspired.

The muse whispers to you when she chooses, and you can't tell her to come back later, because you quickly learn in this business that she might not come back at all.

You know a trillion times more about art than me. But I’ve learned that it isn’t necessary to know all that much. You just make what you wanna see, right? It’s a game, right? It’s like being paid for dreaming.

Picasso says that an artists paints not to ask a question but because he has found something and he wants to share—he cannot help it—what he has found.

The artist's job? To be a miracle worker: make the blind see, the dull feel, the dead to live.

In the same way, I can wake up with a very positive idea of what I want to do for my collection, and be completely desperate at night regarding the same thing. And I do a lot of other things too: Writing for me is almost as important as drawing my collection.

As an artist, you just want to keep creating, keep finding a place that really inspires you that feels fresh and new and keep it exciting.

You could say that I have no inspiration, that I only need to paint.

... a canvas that I have covered is worth more than a blank canvas. My pretensions go no further; that is my right to paint, my reason for painting.

Don't think about making art, just get it done.

Art is not delivered like the morning paper; it has to be stolen from Mount Olympus.

A good artist lets his intuition lead him wherever it wants.

I always say that intuition is the number one tool for an artist.

While most people in the arts think they have to be constantly looking forward to be edgy and creative....the real secret of creativity is to go back and remember.

We do not make art. We have unnamable motors and dangerous impulses that occupy our thoughts.