Joan Miro Quotes

When you are older, you realise that everything else is just nothing compared to painting and drawing.

We show people that anybody can paint a picture that they're proud of. It may never hang in the Smithsonian, but it will certainly be something that they'll hang in their home and be proud of. And that's what it's all about.

One's art goes as far and as deep as one's love goes.

As I create art, it is like a love affair. My days go by loving what I do.

To an artist, creating an image means being in love with it.

When I make a picture, I make love.

I'm not an Expressionist. I love to look at de Kooning, but I've got this kind of secret life, and that is something that pleases me. I have to try and make something out of it.

Every picture shows a spot with which the artist has fallen in love.

Color possesses me. I don't have to pursue it. It will possess me always, I know it. That is the meaning of this happy hour: Color and I are one. I am a painter.

Up until the last minute, it was art and drawing for me. That was the first real and natural thing I thought I was good at and loved to do. But I developed a similar kind of love for music.

The more I paint the more I like everything.

It's like whether you're in a huge movie or you've just recorded an incredible album you've got to do the next thing, and that's part of being an artist.

I had tried painting, mostly to give myself a greater appreciation of the craft and to inform how I looked at paintings. That led to collaging some of the work I had done on paper, and I found myself mixing in found pieces as well.

Painting seems like some kind of peculiar miracle that I need to have again and again.

Why an artist loves what they do is often so hard to describe.

Even though I've been putting out bodies of work for years, 'Beauty Behind the Madness' felt like the beginning.

When you do your art, and you may think people don't recognize it or appreciate it, you actually go and try to get better.

I'm not an Abstraction Expressionist, but I think dedication to paintings comes from an early interest in that work.

I never knew what my role in art was, because I was such a deep appreciator and such a passionate appreciator. But every time I would try to sit down and be an illustrator or painter, it was just not my best use.

We truly experienced a lot as artists.

An amateur may not be an artist, though an artist should be an amateur.

Whoever wishes to devote himself to painting should begin by cutting out his own tongue

It's with my brush that I make love.

It is not enough for a painter to be a clever craftsman; he must love to 'caress' his canvas, too.

It took me twenty years to discover painting: twenty years looking at nature, and above all, going to the Louvre.