Pierre Bonnard

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

It is still color, it is not yet light.

You cannot possibly invent painting all by yourself.

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

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.

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

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

Work on the accent, it will enliven the whole.

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

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

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

Art will never be able to exist without nature.

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

A painting that is well composed is half finished.