Joan Miro Quotes


I work like a labourer on a farm or in a vineyard. Things come to me slowly. My vocabulary of forms, for instance, has not been the discovery of a day. It took shape in spite of myself... That is why I am always working on a hundred different things at the same time.


Citations

Miró, Joan. Joan Miró: Selected Writings and Interviews. Edited by Margit Rowell, Da Capo Press, 1992.

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Joan Miro
Joan Miro
  • Born: April 20, 1893
  • Died: December 25, 1983
  • Nationality: Spanish
  • Profession: Artist

Joan Miró i Ferrà was a Spanish painter, sculptor, and ceramicist born in Barcelona. A museum dedicated to his work, the Fundació Joan Miró, was established in his native city of Barcelona in 1975, and another, the Fundació Pilar i Joan Miró, was established in his adoptive city of Palma de Mallorca in 1981.