“It's not a matter of painting life, it's a matter of giving life to painting.”
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Pierre Bonnard 24
French painter and printmaker 1867–1947Related quotes

“It does not matter how badly you paint so long as you don't paint badly like other people.”
Source: Confessions of a Young Man http://www.gutenberg.org/files/12278/12278-h/12278-h.htm (1886), Ch. 6.

“The brushstroke, in painting, is purely and
simply what it is – rhythm,
color, matter.”
ATV, 187; p. 175
Karel Appel, a gesture of colour' (1992/2009)
Source: Stillpoints: An Introductory Guide to Haiku Painting (2008), p. 20

Joint statement with Adolph Gottlieb, to Edwin A. Jewell, often referred to as a Manifesto. (written 7 June 1943; published 13 June 1943)
1940's

“Painting is getting in touch with the truth. It's a matter of summoning up the vision I need.”
1970's, Conversations with Samuel Beckett and Bram van Velde (1970 - 1972)

“Sculpture and painting are moments of life. Poetry is life itself.”
On poetry

Quoted in: Richard Roud, Godard, introduction (1970).

Letter to S.P. Kuvshinnikova (December 25, 1888)
Letters