How many days have I spent alone with my cat... and when I say alone, I mean without a material being, for my cat is a mystical companion, a spirit. Pierre Bonnard More Quotes by Pierre Bonnard More Quotes From Pierre Bonnard I am just beginning to understand what it is to paint. A painter should have two lives, one in which to learn, and one in which to practice his art. Pierre Bonnard practice should-have art Draw your pleasure, paint your pleasure, and express your pleasure strongly. Pierre Bonnard draws paint pleasure You cannot possibly invent painting all by yourself. Pierre Bonnard painting The precision of naming takes away from the uniqueness of seeing. Pierre Bonnard precision seeing vision What attracted me was less art itself than the artist’s life and all that it meant for me: the idea of creativity and freedom of expression and action. I had been attracted to painting and drawing for a long time, but it was not an irresistible passion; what I wanted, at all costs, was to escape the monotony of life. Pierre Bonnard creativity passion art Painting has to get back to its original goal, examining the inner lives of human beings. Pierre Bonnard painting humans goal Imagination is merely the exploitation of our memory. Pierre Bonnard our-memories imagination memories 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 artist book world Drawing is feeling. Color is an act of reason. Pierre Bonnard drawing color feelings It's not a matter of painting life, it's a matter of giving life to painting. Pierre Bonnard matter giving life You reason colour more than you reason drawing Colour has a logic as severe as form. Pierre Bonnard logic drawing reason 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. Pierre Bonnard people looks ideas Color does not add a pleasant quality to design - it reinforces it. Pierre Bonnard design color death The principal subject is the surface, which has its color, its laws over and above those of object. Pierre Bonnard surface color law A painting that is well composed is half finished. Pierre Bonnard architecture half art It seemed to me that it was possible to translate light, forms, and character using nothing but color, without recourse to values. Pierre Bonnard color light character The important thing is to remember what most impressed you and to put it on canvas as fast as possible. Pierre Bonnard canvas important remember 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 illusion achieve color 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) Pierre Bonnard expression earth would-be One always talks of surrendering to nature. There is also such a thing as surrendering to the picture. Pierre Bonnard
