Joan Miro Quotes

The creative act amazes me. Whether it's poetry, whether it's music, it's an amazing process, and it has something to do with bringing forth the old out into the world to create and to bring forth that which will rejuvenate.

Everything is raw material to me. Land is raw material... I take one form and transform it into other forms.

The world of art is not a world of immortality but of metamorphosis.

It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance and I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of its process.

Indeed, an engineer designing a structure is not unlike an artist painting one. Both start with nothing but talent, experience, and inspiration. The fresh piece of paper on the drawing board is as blank as the newly stretched piece of canvas.

The moment of change is the only poem.

Designis a revelation to me. It's like taking something that is not alive and giving it form, shape, substance, and life.

Art is making something out of nothing and selling it.

I'm intrigued by the dark. Out of darkness comes creation.

I think there is a hunger for things that wake you up, something that makes you peel back your eyes, that reminds you that you are alive. Art is at its best when it is in the 'now.'

Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art.

Art revolves around creating something that isn't there.

My parents taught me to believe that through the creative act, we're able to transcend and give a response to desecration.

Like all artists, I go through creative spurts.

I begin with an idea and then it becomes something else.

Art is a fruit that grows in man, like a fruit on a plant, or a child in its mother's womb.

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

The artist is the medium between his fantasies and the rest of the world.

I can concentrate on my art.

Life comes before literature, as the material always comes before the work. The hills are full of marble before the world blooms with statues.

From things that have happened and from things as they exist and from all things that you know and all those you cannot know, you make something through your invention that is not a representation but a whole new thing truer than anything true and alive, and you make it alive, and if you make it well enough, you give it immortality.

One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star.

Now to consult the rules of composition before making a picture is a little like consulting the law of gravitation before going for a walk. Such rules and laws are deduced from the accomplished fact; they are the products of reflection.

Art is a marriage of the conscious and the unconscious.