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Tapestry Designer Inspirational Quotes (40)

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It was a tradition to represent a dancer frozen in a chosen position, like a snapshot. I broke away from this tradition by superimposing postures, blending light and motion and scrambling the planes.
Sonia Delaunay
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ZENITH / NOON beats out / on its solar anvil / the rays of light
Sonia Delaunay
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When I stand before a canvas, I never know what I'll do, and I am the first one surprised at what comes out.
Joan Miro
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I begin my pictures under the effect of a shock which I feel and which makes me escape from reality... I need a point of departure, even if it's only a speck of dust or a flash of light.
Joan Miro
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I begin painting and as I paint the picture begins to assert itself, or suggest itself, under my brush. The form becomes a sign for a woman or a bird as I work... The first stage is free, unconscious... the second stage is carefully calculated.
Joan Miro
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For me, a painting must give off sparks. It must dazzle like the beauty of a woman or a poem.
Joan Miro
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If you have any notion of where you are going, you will never get anywhere.
Joan Miro
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For me an object is something living. This cigarette or this box of matches contains a secret life much more intense than that of certain human beings.
Joan Miro
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One who knows how to appreciate color relationships, the influence of one color with another, their contrasts and dissonances, is promised an infinite variety of images.
Sonia Delaunay
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A simple line painted with the brush can lead to freedom and happiness.
Joan Miro
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The more I work, the more I want to work.
Joan Miro
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More important than a work of art itself is what it will sow. Art can die, a painting can disappear. What counts is the seed.
Joan Miro
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I think of my studio as a vegetable garden, where things follow their natural course. They grow, they ripen. You have to graft. You have to water.
Joan Miro
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The painting rises from the brushstrokes as a poem rises from the words. The meaning comes later.
Joan Miro
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Colour is the skin of the world.
Sonia Delaunay
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The more ignoble I find life, the more strongly I react by contradiction, in humour and in an outburst of liberty and expansion.
Joan Miro
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In the sky we had rediscovered the moving principle of any work of art: the light, and the motion of color.
Sonia Delaunay
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For me, a picture should be like sparks. It must dazzle like the beauty of a woman or a poem. It must have radiance it must be like those stones which Pyrenean shepherds use to light their pipes.
Joan Miro
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Painting or poetry is made as one makes love - a total embrace, prudence thrown to the winds, nothing held back.
Joan Miro
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I love creation more than life, and I must express myself before disappearing.
Sonia Delaunay
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I make no distinction between poetry and painting.
Joan Miro
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The sun rises at midnight.
Sonia Delaunay
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I believe that to do anything in this world one needs a love for risk and adventure, and above all, to be able to do without what middle-class families call future.
Joan Miro
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Painting must be fertile. It must give birth to a world.. ..it must fertilize the imagination.
Joan Miro
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