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
logic severe
You reason color more than you reason drawing... Color has a logic as severe as form.
drawing logic reason
You reason colour more than you reason drawing Colour has a logic as severe as form.
One must never let go before having managed to set down one's first impressions.
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.
art color art-is
Art is not nature... There was a lot more to be got out of color.
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