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The plate that a peasant eats his soup out of is much more interesting to me than the ridiculously rich plates of rich people.

— Joan Miró Art Is the Highest Form of Hope & Other Quotes by Artists by Phaidon (2016)

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

Your face had become dark, and, upon the day's awakening, your ashes will disperse themselves throughout the garden.

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

To gain freedom is to gain simplicity.

In the current struggle I see the antiquated forces of fascism on one side, and on the other, those of the people, whose immense creative resources will give Spain a drive that will amaze the world.

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