Pierre Bonnard: Quotes about drawing

Pierre Bonnard was French painter and printmaker. Explore interesting quotes on drawing.

Pierre Bonnard: 48 quotes34 likes

“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.”

letter to his grandmother, c. 1883; as cited in Pierre Bonnard, by John Rewald; MoMA -distribution, Simon & Schuster, New York, 1918, p. 12 (note 1)

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

“You reason colour more than you reason drawing Colour has a logic as severe as form.”