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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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Joan Miro
Age: 90 †
Born: 1893
Born: January 1
Died: 1983
Died: December 25
Artist
Ceramicist
Designer
Graphic Artist
Lithographer
Painter
Postage Stamp Designer
Scenographer
Sculptor
Tapestry Designer
Barcelona
Spain
Joan Miró i Ferrà
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I throw down the gauntlet to chance. For example, I prepare the ground for a picture by cleaning my brush over the canvas. Spilling a little turpentine can also be helpful.
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You can look at a picture for a week and never think of it again. You can also look at the picture for a second and think of it all your life.
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