I have thought a lot about the question of titles. I must confess that I find any for works that take off from an arbitrary starting point and end with something real....[Miro allowed Pierre Matisse to make titles, based on the] real things....[if they do] not evoke some tendency or other, something I want to avoid completely [very probably Miro meant here: Surrealism]. [advising Pierre Matisse; who showed then several modern European painters in New York].


In a letter to his art-seller Pierre Matisse, 12 October 1934; as quoted in Calder Miro, ed. Elizabeth Hutton Turner / Oliver Wick; Philip Wilson Publishers, London 2004, p. 82, note 24

Joan Miró Quotes

I have thought a lot about the question of titles. I must confess that I find any for works that take off from an arbitrary starting point and end...

I have thought a lot about the question of titles. I must confess that I find any for works that take off from an arbitrary starting point and end...

I have thought a lot about the question of titles. I must confess that I find any for works that take off from an arbitrary starting point and end...

I have thought a lot about the question of titles. I must confess that I find any for works that take off from an arbitrary starting point and end...