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
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.
mean cat spirit
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.
One always talks of surrendering to nature. There is also such a thing as surrendering to the picture.
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.
law color surface
The principal subject is the surface, which has its color, its laws over and above those of object.
half painting wells
A painting that is well composed is half finished.
life giving matter
It's not a matter of painting life, it's a matter of giving life to painting.
goal painting humans
Painting has to get back to its original goal, examining the inner lives of human beings.
art passion creativity
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.
death color design
Color does not add a pleasant quality to design - it reinforces it.