French - Artist | October 3, 1867 - January 23, 1947
Draw your pleasure, paint your pleasure, and express your pleasure strongly.
Pierre Bonnard
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Work on the accent, it will enliven the whole.
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The precision of naming takes away from the uniqueness of seeing.
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Art will never be able to exist without nature.
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Color does not add a pleasant quality to design - it reinforces it.
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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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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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A painting that is well composed is half finished.
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You cannot possibly invent painting all by yourself.
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It is still color, it is not yet light.
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You reason color more than you reason drawing... Color has a logic as severe as form.
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