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The artist who paints the emotions creates an enclosed world... the picture... which, like a book, has the same interest no matter where it happens to be. Such an artist, we may imagine, spends a great deal of time doing nothing but looking, both around him and inside him.

Pierre Bonnard
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Pierre Bonnard's Popular Quotes

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

- Pierre Bonnard

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

- Pierre Bonnard

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

- Pierre Bonnard

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

- 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

You cannot possibly invent painting all by yourself.

- Pierre Bonnard

Imagination is merely the exploitation of our memory.

- Pierre Bonnard

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

- Pierre Bonnard

Drawing is feeling. Color is an act of reason.

- Pierre Bonnard
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