Quotes by Pierre Bonnard

• Color does not add a pleasant quality to design - it reinforces it.
• You reason color more than you reason drawing... Color has a logic as severe as form.
• You cannot possibly invent painting all by yourself.
• Work on the accent, it will enliven the whole.
• The precision of naming takes away from the uniqueness of seeing.
• Draw your pleasure, paint your pleasure, and express your pleasure strongly.
• Art will never be able to exist without nature.
• A painting that is well composed is half finished.
• The important thing is to remember what most impressed you and to put it on canvas as fast as possible.
• It is still color, it is not yet light.