Quotes by Pierre Bonnard - Page 1

It is still color, it is not yet light.
Pierre Bonnard / Artist
Color
Energy
Light
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One does not always sing out of happiness.
Pierre Bonnard / Artist
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Work on the accent, it will enliven the whole.
Pierre Bonnard / Artist
Strength
Accents
Whole
Accent
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Drawing is feeling. Color is an act of reason.
Pierre Bonnard / Artist
Color
Drawing
Feelings
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Art will never be able to exist without nature.
Pierre Bonnard / Artist
Art
Able
Exist
Without
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A painting that is well composed is half finished.
Pierre Bonnard / Artist
Art
Architecture
Finished
Half
Painting
Composed
Well
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You cannot possibly invent painting all by yourself.
Pierre Bonnard / Artist
Painting
Invent
Possibly
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Imagination is merely the exploitation of our memory.
Pierre Bonnard / Artist
Imagination
Memories
Our Memories
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The precision of naming takes away from the uniqueness of seeing.
Pierre Bonnard / Artist
Brainy
Precision
Seeing
Uniqueness
Vision
Away
Naming
Takes
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Art is not nature... There was a lot more to be got out of color.
Pierre Bonnard / Artist
Art
Art Is
Color
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Color does not add a pleasant quality to design - it reinforces it.
Pierre Bonnard / Artist
Death
Quality
Design
Add
Color
Pleasant
Does
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And after drawing comes composition. A well-composed painting is half done
Pierre Bonnard / Artist
Done
Drawing
Half
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Draw your pleasure, paint your pleasure, and express your pleasure strongly.
Pierre Bonnard / Artist
Art
Draws
Paint
Pleasure
Draw
Express
Strongly
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It's not a matter of painting life, it's a matter of giving life to painting.
Pierre Bonnard / Artist
Life
Giving
Matter
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When you forget everything, there only remains yourself - and that is not enough.
Pierre Bonnard / Artist
Remains
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You reason colour more than you reason drawing Colour has a logic as severe as form.
Pierre Bonnard / Artist
Drawing
Logic
Reason
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You reason color more than you reason drawing... Color has a logic as severe as form.
Pierre Bonnard / Artist
Color
Drawing
Form
Logic
Severe
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Painting has to get back to its original goal, examining the inner lives of human beings.
Pierre Bonnard / Artist
Goal
Humans
Painting
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The principal subject is the surface, which has its color, its laws over and above those of object.
Pierre Bonnard / Artist
Color
Law
Surface
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I should like to present myself to the young painters of the year 2000 with the wings of a butterfly.
Pierre Bonnard / Artist
Butterfly
Wings
Painters
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One always talks of surrendering to nature. There is also such a thing as surrendering to the picture.
Pierre Bonnard / Artist
Picture
Such A Thing
Surrendering
Talks
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The important thing is to remember what most impressed you and to put it on canvas as fast as possible.
Pierre Bonnard / Artist
Canvas
Important
Impressed
Remember
Fast
Important Thing
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It seemed to me that it was possible to translate light, forms, and character using nothing but color, without recourse to values.
Pierre Bonnard / Artist
Character
Color
Light
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The painter's only solid ground is the palette and colors, but as soon as the colors achieve an illusion, they are no longer judged.
Pierre Bonnard / Artist
Achieve
Color
Illusion
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What I am after is the first impression - I want to show all one sees on first entering the room - what my eye takes in at first glance.
Pierre Bonnard / Artist
Eye
First Impression
Want
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I'm trying to do what I have never done - give the impression one has on entering a room: one sees everything and at the same time nothing.
Pierre Bonnard / Artist
Entering
Impression
Time Done Nothing
Room
Same Time
Sees
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The expression on my face - who on earth would be interested in that? All that I have to say is to be found in my works. (On being photographed)
Pierre Bonnard / Artist
Earth
Expression
Would Be
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I am just beginning to understand what it is to paint. A painter should have two lives, one in which to learn, and one in which to practice his art.
Pierre Bonnard / Artist
Art
Practice
Should Have
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How many days have I spent alone with my cat... and when I say alone, I mean without a material being, for my cat is a mystical companion, a spirit.
Pierre Bonnard / Artist
Cat
Mean
Spirit
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Speaking, when you have something to say, is like looking. But who looks? If people could see properly, and see whole, they would all be painters. And it's because people have no idea how to look that they hardly ever understand.
Pierre Bonnard / Artist
Ideas
Looks
People
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The artist who paints the emotions creates an enclosed world... the picture... which, like a book, has the same interest no matter where it happens to be. Such an artist, we may imagine, spends a great deal of time doing nothing but looking, both around him and inside him.
Pierre Bonnard / Artist
Artist
Book
World
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What attracted me was less art itself than the artist’s life and all that it meant for me: the idea of creativity and freedom of expression and action. I had been attracted to painting and drawing for a long time, but it was not an irresistible passion; what I wanted, at all costs, was to escape the monotony of life.
Pierre Bonnard / Artist
Art
Creativity
Passion
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