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It's not a matter of painting life, it's a matter of giving life to painting.
Pierre Bonnard
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Pierre Bonnard
Age: 79 †
Born: 1867
Born: October 13
Died: 1947
Died: January 23
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Pierre Eugène Frédéric Bonnard
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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.
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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)
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Draw your pleasure, paint your pleasure, and express your pleasure strongly.
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It is still color, it is not yet light.
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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.
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Imagination is merely the exploitation of our memory.
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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.
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One does not always sing out of happiness.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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The important thing is to remember what most impressed you and to put it on canvas as fast as possible.
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You reason colour more than you reason drawing Colour has a logic as severe as form.
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A painting that is well composed is half finished.
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Color does not add a pleasant quality to design - it reinforces it.
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Painting has to get back to its original goal, examining the inner lives of human beings.
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Art will never be able to exist without nature.
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