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