Pierre Bonnard Quotes
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Art will never be able to exist without nature.
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You reason color more than you reason drawing... Color has a logic as severe as form.
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I should like to present myself to the young painters of the year 2000 with the wings of a butterfly.
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One always talks of surrendering to nature. There is also such a thing as surrendering to the picture.
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The precision of naming takes away from the uniqueness of seeing.
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The important thing is to remember what most impressed you and to put it on canvas as fast as possible.
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I work in the mornings and in the afternoons I go to the Latin Quarter. It is a long way from the Batignolles district to the Pantheon: Fortunately there is the Metro. It amuses me to see the people squashed together, and among them are some pretty faces which I draw in the evenings, from memory, in my sketchbook.
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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.
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When you forget everything, there only remains yourself - and that is not enough.
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My first pictures were done by instinct, the others with more method perhaps. Instinct which nourishes method can often be superior to a method which nourishes instinct.
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A painting that is well composed is half finished.
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I have all my subjects to hand. I go back and look at them. I take notes. Then I go home. And before I start painting I reflect, I dream.
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You cannot possibly invent painting all by yourself.
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Color does not add a pleasant quality to design - it reinforces it.
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Draw your pleasure, paint your pleasure, and express your pleasure strongly.
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Work on the accent, it will enliven the whole.
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It would bother me if my canvases were stretched onto a frame. I never know in advance what dimensions I am going to choose.
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It is still color, it is not yet light.