A painting that is well composed is half finished.
Pierre Bonnard

Art will never be able to exist without nature.
Pierre Bonnard

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

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

It is still color, it is not yet light.
Pierre Bonnard

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

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

Work on the accent, it will enliven the whole.
Pierre Bonnard

You cannot possibly invent painting all by yourself.
Pierre Bonnard

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