Pierre Bonnard Quotes

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• Color does not add a pleasant quality to design - it reinforces it.
• The precision of naming takes away from the uniqueness of seeing.
• The important thing is to remember what most impressed you and to put it on canvas as fast as possible.
• It is still color, it is not yet light.
• It's not a matter of painting life, it's a matter of giving life to painting.
• And after drawing comes composition. A well-composed painting is half done
• A painting that is well composed is half finished.
• One does not always sing out of happiness.
• Painting has to get back to its original goal, examining the inner lives of human beings.
• Art is not nature... There was a lot more to be got out of color.
• Drawing is feeling. Color is an act of reason.
• You reason colour more than you reason drawing Colour has a logic as severe as form.
• 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…
• Draw your pleasure, paint your pleasure, and express your pleasure strongly.
• Art will never be able to exist without nature.
• 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…
• Work on the accent, it will enliven the whole.
• You cannot possibly invent painting all by yourself.
• 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…
• 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.

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