Pierre Bonnard

The artist must be a child again.

The work of art must be a game.

The artist must be a dancer.

The painting must be a dance.

The artist must be a musician.

The work of art must be a symphony.

The artist must be a poet, a musician, a dancer, a magician, a god, a saint, a fool, a child, a lover, a dreamer, a prophet, a solitary being, a madman, a searcher, a spectator, a sponge.

The painting must be a harmony, a feast, a window, a song, a prayer, a joy, a game, a dance, a symphony, a dream, a revelation, a blessing, a miracle, a mystery, a surprise.

I am always trying to capture the first impression, the freshness of the moment.

The light is everything. It is the soul of the painting.

Color is to painting what enthusiasm is to life.

One sees what one looks at, and one looks at what one loves.

The artist is a spectator par excellence, a modelizer of the world.

Light reveals, but color interprets.

In art, as in love, instinct is enough.

The window is the soul of the house, just as the eye is the soul of the face.

Painting is not made to decorate apartments. It is an instrument of war.

I am careful not to observe directly with the eye, but rather through a bit of glass.

The precision of his drawing is like that of a great violinist.

Happiness is an imaginary condition, formerly often experienced by the young.