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
art color art-is
Art is not nature... There was a lot more to be got out of color.
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.
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.
art should-have practice
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.
One must never let go before having managed to set down one's first impressions.
logic severe
You reason color more than you reason drawing... Color has a logic as severe as form.
When you forget everything, there only remains yourself - and that is not enough.
painters year
I should like to present myself to the young painters of the year 2000 with the wings of a butterfly.
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.
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.