Пьер Боннар цитаты

„Браком по любви мы называем брак, в котором состоятельный мужчина женится на красивой и богатой девушке.“

—  Пьер Боннар

„Искусство никогда не сможет существовать без природы.“

—  Пьер Боннар

„Imagination is merely the exploitation of our memory.“

—  Pierre Bonnard

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

—  Pierre Bonnard

„It would bother me if my canvases were stretched onto a frame. I never know in advance what dimensions I am going to choose.“

—  Pierre Bonnard

Dita Amory, in Pierre Bonnard: The Late Still Lifes and Interiors; Yale University Press, New Haven, 2009 - ISBN 978-0-300-14889-3, p. 4
Bonnard started to paint usually on an unstretched canvas

„My first pictures were done by instinct, the others with more method perhaps. Instinct which nourishes method can often be superior to a method which nourishes instinct.“

—  Pierre Bonnard

quoted by his brother-in-law Claude Terrasse, in 'Introduction' of Pierre Bonnard, John Rewald; MoMA - distribution Simon & Schuster, New York, 1918

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

—  Pierre Bonnard

„Draw you pleasure, paint your pleasure, and express your pleasure strongly.“

—  Pierre Bonnard

„a figure should be a part of the background against which it is placed“

—  Pierre Bonnard

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

—  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

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

—  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

„The principal subject is the surface, which has its color, its laws over and above those of object.“

—  Pierre Bonnard

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

—  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

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

—  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 have sent you news of myself long ago, for I know how much pleasure one derives from a letter during one's first days in the regiment. One needs it to be reminded that one is something more than a registered number and that in the past one's existence was different from that of beast. Anyway that is how I felt about the army. I was unable to connect my present existence with my former life as a civilian.... Here [in Paris in his studio in La Rue Pigalle] I am leading a studious and quite exemplary life... I am working on an important picture which is progressing well and which will be exhibited, I hope, at the [Salon des] 'Indépendants. In addition I am planning to do a screen which will also be shown at the exhibition. Otherwise nothing is happening. I may go with Vuillard to see a music publisher, but I do not expect any success as yet in that direction. I have abandoned chromolithography (ouf!) for the moment, but I shall take it up again whenever I feel impelled to interrupt my oil painting, in order to vary my pleasure's.“

—  Pierre Bonnard

in his letter to Lugné-Poë, End of 1890; as quoted in Pierre Bonnard, by John Rewald; MoMA - distribution, Simon & Schuster, New York, 1918, p. 17 - note 11
Lugné-Poe was just called then in the French army; Bonnard had left the army already, c. one year ago