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Pierre Bonnard Quotes

1867–1947 France

Pierre Bonnard (3 October 1867 — 23 January 1947) was a French painter and print-maker, as well as a founding member of the Post-Impressionist group Les Nabis. Bonnard preferred to work from memory, using drawings as his reference for painting; The intimate domestic scenes, for which he is perhaps best known, often include his wife Marthe de Méligny.

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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.

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

Colour has a logic as exact as that of form. One must not give up before capturing that first impression.

Konstrevy (1937)

I have all my subjects to hand. I go back and look at them. I take notes. Then I go home. And before I start painting I reflect, I dream.

I work in the mornings and in the afternoons I go to the Latin Quarter. It is a long way from the Batignolles district to the Pantheon: Fortunately there is the Metro. It amuses me to see the people squashed together, and among them are some pretty faces which I draw in the evenings, from memory, in my sketchbook.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Pierre Bonnard (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.