“To gain freedom is to gain simplicity.”

—  Joan Miró

Joan Miró, Joan Miró Foundation
1940 - 1960

Adopted from Wikiquote. Last update June 3, 2021. History

Help us to complete the source, original and additional information

Do you have more details about the quote "To gain freedom is to gain simplicity." by Joan Miró?
Joan Miró photo
Joan Miró 26
Catalan painter, sculptor, and ceramicist 1893–1983

Related quotes

Elizabeth Bibesco photo

“My soul has gained the freedom of the night.”

Elizabeth Bibesco (1897–1945) writer, actress; Romanian princess

Poems (1928)
Haven (1951)

Robert Browning photo

“Every joy is gain
And gain is gain, however small.”

Part 4.
Paracelsus (1835)

Lech Wałęsa photo

“Freedom must be gained step by step, slowly. Freedom is a food which must be carefully administered when people are too hungry for it.”

Lech Wałęsa (1943) Polish politician, Nobel Peace Prize winner, former President of Poland

Interview http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1946&dat=19810316&id=mjkyAAAAIBAJ&sjid=vaQFAAAAIBAJ&pg=866,2677867&q=%22Freedom+must+be+gained+step+by+step+slowly+Freedom+is+a+food+which+must+be+carefully+administered+when+people+are+too+hungry+for+it%22 with Oriana Fallaci (22 & 23 February 1981)

Aeschylus photo

“Gain upon gain, and interest to boot!”

Aeschylus (-525–-456 BC) ancient Athenian playwright

Source: Seven Against Thebes (467 BC), line 437 (tr. G. M. Cookson)

Robert H. Jackson photo

“Not every defeat of authority is a gain for individual freedom, nor every judicial rescue of a convict a victory for liberty.”

Robert H. Jackson (1892–1954) American judge

Source: "The Task of Maintaining Our Liberties: The Role of the Judiciary" (1953), P. 964

Eleanor Roosevelt photo

“No person's gain in wisdom is diminished by anyone else's gain.”

Source: The Greening of America (1970), Chapter XII : The Greening Of America, p. 383 ( See also: Vilfredo Pareto)

Terry Goodkind photo
Erica Jong photo

“Loving someone is a loss of freedom -- but one doesn't think of it as loss because one gains so much else.”

Erica Jong (1942) Novelist, poet, memoirist, critic

How to Save Your Own Life (1977)

Related topics