Pierre Bonnard
Pierre Bonnard
Pierre Bonnardwas a French painter and printmaker, as well as a founding member of the Post-Impressionist group of avant-garde painters Les Nabis. Bonnard preferred to work from memory, using drawings as a reference, and his paintings are often characterized by a dreamlike quality. The intimate domestic scenes, for which he is perhaps best known, often include his wife Marthe de Meligny...
NationalityFrench
ProfessionArtist
Date of Birth3 October 1867
CountryFrance
strength accents whole
Work on the accent, it will enliven the whole.
doe
One does not always sing out of happiness.
expression earth faces
The expression on my face - who on earth would be interested in that? All that I have to say is to be found in my works. (On being photographed)
color light energy
It is still color, it is not yet light.
color illusion achieve
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.
eye first-impression entering
What I am after is the first impression - I want to show all one sees on first entering the room - what my eye takes in at first glance.
drawing half done
And after drawing comes composition. A well-composed painting is half done
drawing logic reason
You reason colour more than you reason drawing Colour has a logic as severe as form.
character color light
It seemed to me that it was possible to translate light, forms, and character using nothing but color, without recourse to values.
memories imagination our-memories
Imagination is merely the exploitation of our memory.
ideas people looks
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 painters. And it's because people have no idea how to look that they hardly ever understand.
important remember canvas
The important thing is to remember what most impressed you and to put it on canvas as fast as possible.
art able
Art will never be able to exist without nature.
book artist world
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.