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"One of the characteristics of humility is the ability to take the second place without striving for self-promotion."

"The more success a person has in life, the greater the danger of fornication can become."

"Pleasure and Pain participate equally in moulding character."

"If you know how it's to be treated unfairly, you will be gentle with others."

"Don't marry the most beautiful woman in the world, marry the woman with the most beautiful deeds."

"Character is what the world needs - character that will empower the mind with such an unimaginable strength that one would meet death face to face and say "some other time, pal!"
Explore more quotes by Joan Miro

"My characters have undergone the same process of simplification as the colors. Now that they have been simplified, they appear more human and alive than if they had been represented in all their details."

"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."

"For me an object is something living. This cigarette or this box of matches contains a secret life much more intense than that of certain human beings."

"What I am looking for... is an immobile movement, something which would be the equivalent of what is called the eloquence of silence, or what St. John of the Cross, I think it was, described with the term 'mute music'."

"I feel the need of attaining the maximum of intensity with the minimum of means. It is this which has led me to give my painting a character of even greater bareness."
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