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

— Joan Miró

from: Taillandier, 1959; as quoted in Calder Miró, ed. Elizabeth Hutton Turner / Oliver Wick; Philip Wilson Publishers, London 2004, p. 82, note 24
1940 - 1960

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Catalan painter, sculptor, and ceramicist 1893–1983

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