Painting or poetry is made as one makes love - a total embrace, prudence thrown to the winds, nothing held back.
Joan MiroThe painting rises from the brushstrokes as a poem rises from the words. The meaning comes later.
Joan MiroI feel the need of attaining the maximum of intensity with the minimum of means. It is this which has led me to give my painting a character of even greater bareness.
Joan MiroNever, never do I set to work on a canvas in the state it comes in from the shop. I provoke accidents - a form, a splotch of color. Any accident is good enough. I let the matiere decide. Then I prepare a ground by, for example, wiping my brushes on the canvas. Letting fall some drops of turpentine on it would do just as well. If I want to make a drawing I crumple the sheet of paper or I wet it; the flowing water traces a line and this line may suggest what is to come next.
Joan Miro