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Pierre Bonnard - From the Artists category:
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)
Pierre Bonnard - From the Brother/Sisterhood category:
You cannot possibly invent painting all by yourself. (Pierre Bonnard)
Pierre Bonnard - From the Colour category:
Drawing is feeling. Color is an act of reason. (Pierre Bonnard)
Pierre Bonnard - From the Colour category:
It is still color, it is not yet light. (Pierre Bonnard)
Pierre Bonnard - From the Colour category:
You reason color more than you reason drawing... Color has a logic as severe as form. (Pierre Bonnard)
Pierre Bonnard - From the Composition category:
And after drawing comes composition. A well-composed painting is half done. (Pierre Bonnard)
Pierre Bonnard - From the Design category:
Color does not add a pleasant quality to design – it reinforces it. (Pierre Bonnard)
Pierre Bonnard - From the Emotion category:
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. (Pierre Bonnard)
Pierre Bonnard - From the Illusion category:
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)
Pierre Bonnard - From the Importance category:
The important thing is to remember what most impressed you and to put it on canvas as fast as possible. (Pierre Bonnard)
Pierre Bonnard - From the Impressionism category:
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)
Pierre Bonnard - From the Light category:
It seemed to me that it was possible to translate light, forms, and character using nothing but color, without recourse to values. (Pierre Bonnard)
Pierre Bonnard - From the Nature category:
Art will never be able to exist without nature. (Pierre Bonnard)
Pierre Bonnard - From the Pleasure category:
Draw your pleasure, paint your pleasure, and express your pleasure strongly. (Pierre Bonnard)
Pierre Bonnard - From the Purpose category:
Painting has to get back to its original goal, examining the inner lives of human beings. (Pierre Bonnard)
Pierre Bonnard - From the Seeing category:
The precision of naming takes away from the uniqueness of seeing. (Pierre Bonnard)
Pierre Bonnard - From the Strength category:
Work on the accent, it will enliven the whole. (Pierre Bonnard)
Pierre Bonnard - From the Subject category:
The principal subject is the surface, which has its color, its laws over and above those of object. (Pierre Bonnard)
Pierre Bonnard - From the Understanding category:
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)
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