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Pierre Bonnard Biography

Pierre Bonnard (French: [bɔnaʁ]; 3 October 1867 — 23 January 1947) was 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.

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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)

Earth, Expression, Found, Interested, Would Be

Art will never be able to exist without nature.

Able, Art, Exist, Nature

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.

Art, Beginning, Paint, Practice, Should Have

Draw your pleasure, paint your pleasure, and express your pleasure strongly.

Draw, Draws, Express, Paint, Pleasure, Strongly

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.

Artist, Book, Looking, Nothing, Same, World

It is still color, it is not yet light.

Color, Energy, Light

Painting has to get back to its original goal, examining the inner lives of human beings.

Goal, Humans, Lives, Painting

Imagination is merely the exploitation of our memory.

Exploitation, Imagination, Memories, Memory, Our Memories

You cannot possibly invent painting all by yourself.

Invent, Painting, Possibly

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, Creativity, Freedom, Monotony, Passion

Art is not nature. . . There was a lot more to be got out of color.

Art, Art Is, Color, Nature

Work on the accent, it will enliven the whole.

Strength, Accents, Whole, Enliven, Work

It seemed to me that it was possible to translate light, forms, and character using nothing but color, without recourse to values.

Character, Color, Light, Possible, Using, Values

You reason colour more than you reason drawing Colour has a logic as severe as form.

Drawing, Logic, Reason, Severe

The precision of naming takes away from the uniqueness of seeing.

Away, Precision, Seeing, Vision

One does not always sing out of happiness.

Doe, Happiness, Sing

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.

Ideas, Like, Looks, Painters, People, Say

And after drawing comes composition. A well-composed painting is half done

Drawing, Done, Half, Composition

It's not a matter of painting life, it's a matter of giving life to painting.

Giving, Life, Matter, Painting

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.

Achieve, Color, Ground, Illusion, Longer, Palette