Pierre Bonnard Quotes

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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…
• It seemed to me that it was possible to translate light, forms, and character using nothing but color, without recourse to values.
• 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…
• The principal subject is the surface, which has its color, its laws over and above those of object.
• I should like to present myself to the young painters of the year 2000 with the wings of a butterfly.
• When you forget everything, there only remains yourself - and that is not enough.
• One always talks of surrendering to nature. There is also such a thing as surrendering to the picture.
• You reason color more than you reason drawing... Color has a logic as severe as form.

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