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

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

Imagination is merely the exploitation of our memory. — Pierre Bonnard

You cannot possibly invent painting all by yourself. — Pierre Bonnard

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. — Pierre Bonnard

The precision of naming takes away from the uniqueness of seeing. — Pierre Bonnard

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) — Pierre Bonnard

In love one had need of being believed, in friendship of being understood. — Abel Bonnard

Draw your pleasure, paint your pleasure, and express your pleasure strongly. — Pierre Bonnard

The important thing is to remember what most impressed you and to put it on canvas as fast as possible. — Pierre Bonnard

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

It is still color, it is not yet light. — Pierre Bonnard

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

Work on the accent, it will enliven the whole. — Pierre Bonnard

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. — Pierre Bonnard

Drawing is feeling. Color is an act of reason. — Pierre Bonnard

One always talks of surrendering to nature. There is also such a thing as surrendering to the picture. — Pierre Bonnard

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

You reason color more than you reason drawing ... Color has a logic as severe as form. — Pierre Bonnard

The principal subject is the surface, which has its color, its laws over and above those of object. — Pierre Bonnard

Friendship is the positive and unalterable choice of a person whom we have singled out for qualitites that we admire. — Abel Bonnard

When you forget everything, there only remains yourself - and that is not enough. — Pierre Bonnard

Color does not add a pleasant quality to design - it reinforces it. — Pierre Bonnard

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. — Pierre Bonnard

Art will never be able to exist without nature. — Pierre Bonnard

A painting that is well composed is half finished. — Pierre Bonnard

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

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. — Pierre Bonnard

I should like to present myself to the young painters of the year 2000 with the wings of a butterfly. — Pierre Bonnard

One does not always sing out of happiness. — Pierre Bonnard

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. — Pierre Bonnard