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Throughout the time in which I am working on a canvas I can feel how I am beginning to love it, with that love which is born of slow comprehension. — Joan Miro

Not all fairy tales have happily ever afters, some just have afters. — Chandra Hahn

Maybe. Although I doubt most Shadowhunters get a tattoo of Donatello from the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles on their left shoulder. — Cassandra Clare

Books were a dependable pleasure. — Wendell Berry

You couldn't forget [Pablo] Picasso, [Henri] Matisse and [Joan] Miro either. And it had to be, you know, at least as good or better. — Frank Stella

And you can't have two stars in one relationship. Somebody has to be willing to be the wagon ... at lease some of the time — Meg Cabot

Justine's virtue, in action, is the liberal lie in action, a good heart and an inadequate methodology. — Angela Carter

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

Faith comes by hearing all the Word, not just preferred sections. — David Wilkerson

The simplest things give me ideas. — Joan Miro

Until Charlie broke his ankle in Toronto, we were as good a unit as anybody. — Marcel Dionne

The works must be conceived with fire in the soul but executed with clinical coolness. — Joan Miro

For me, a painting must give off sparks. It must dazzle like the beauty of a woman or a poem. — Joan Miro

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

I work like a gardener. — Joan Miro

The painting rises from the brushstrokes as a poem rises from the words. The meaning comes later. — Joan Miro

My tendency towards bareness and simplification has been practiced in three fields: modeling, colors, and the figuration of the personages. — Joan Miro

I start from something considered dead and arrive at a world. And when I put a title on it, it becomes even more alive. — Joan Miro

What I will no longer accept is the mediocre life of a modest little gentleman. — Joan Miro

If you have any notion of where you are going, you will never get anywhere. — Joan Miro

Death hastens those who hasten death. — Joan Slonczewski

I want to assassinate painting, — Joan Miro

The picture should be fecund. It must bring a world to birth. — Joan Miro

She crossed her legs and kicked out her feet, clad in thick wool socks and boots big enough to house a little old lady. — Drew Magary

Not every conspiracy is a theory, — James Badge Dale

To gain freedom is to gain simplicity. — Joan Miro

The spectacle of the sky overwhelms me. I'm overwhelmed when I see, in an immense sky, the crescent of the moon or the sun. — Joan Miro

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

Writing gives you the illusion of control, and then you realize it's just an illusion, that people are going to bring their own stuff into it. — David Sedaris

What I am seeking ... is a motionless movement, something equivalent to what is called the eloquence of silence ... — Joan Miro

Painting or poetry is made as one makes love - a total embrace, prudence thrown to the winds, nothing held back. — Joan Miro

Painting must be fertile. It must give birth to a world ... it must fertilize the imagination. — Joan Miro

The most important thing you can ever know, is that whatever your purpose is, that's not your only choice. — Dan Wells

I try to apply colors like words that shape poems, like notes that shape music. — Joan Miro

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

I make no distinction between poetry and painting. — Joan Miro

The more I work, the more I want to work. — Joan Miro

God wants to bless us where we are. — Joel Osteen

A simple line painted with the brush can lead to freedom and happiness. — Joan Miro