Pierre Bonnard Quotes - click name for biography

·         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

·         A painting that is well composed is half finished.
- Pierre Bonnard

·         The important thing is to remember what most impressed you and to put it on canvas as fast as possible.
- Pierre Bonnard

·         It seemed to me that it was possible to translate light, forms, and character using nothing but color, without recourse to values.
- Pierre Bonnard

·         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

·         The principal subject is the surface, which has its color, its laws over and above those of object.
- Pierre Bonnard