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
paint pleasure draws
Draw your pleasure, paint your pleasure, and express your pleasure strongly.
painting
You cannot possibly invent painting all by yourself.
vision precision seeing
The precision of naming takes away from the uniqueness of seeing.
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)
entering sees time trying
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.
painters year
I should like to present myself to the young painters of the year 2000 with the wings of a butterfly.