Pierre Bonnard

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

Art will never be able to exist without nature.

You cannot possibly invent painting all by yourself.

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

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.

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

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

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

It is still color, it is not yet light.

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.

A painting that is well composed is half finished.

Work on the accent, it will enliven the whole.

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

Color does not add a pleasant quality to design it reinforces it.

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

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