Bonnard Quotes

Enjoy the best quotes on Bonnard , Explore, save & share top quotes on Bonnard .

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

Pierre Bonnard
Save QuoteView Quote

A painting that is well composed is half finished.

Pierre Bonnard
Save QuoteView Quote

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

Pierre Bonnard
Save QuoteView Quote

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

Pierre Bonnard
Save QuoteView Quote

Art will never be able to exist without nature.

Pierre Bonnard
Save QuoteView Quote

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

Pierre Bonnard
Save QuoteView Quote

After the great Impressionists, and again after Van Gogh and Gaugin, people said, 'Painting is now played out.' But Bonnard, Maurice Denis, Roussel and Vuillard appeared and gave them the lie. 'We were wrong,' said the croakers, 'but this at any rate is the end.' Yet to refute them, and to prove that there is no end to art, still another generation of painters sprang up.

Ambroise Vollard, Recollections of a Picture Dealer
Save QuoteView Quote

The history books which contain no lies are extremely tedious

Anatole France, The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard
Save QuoteView Quote

Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.

Anatole France, The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard
Save QuoteView Quote

Time deals gently only with those who take it gently.

Anatole France, The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard
Save QuoteView Quote