Pierre Bonnard Quotes

My passion for painting is so sacred and personal to me.

I dream of painting and then I paint my dream.

Through art, you create your own world.

I love to create, and to me, the ultimate freedom of expression is a blank canvas or a block of clay to capture whatever emotions your imagination gives it.

Sometimes I can see the whole painting from the outset in my mind's eye. But more often than not, that idea doesn't last the duration of the painting. Sometimes it comes out easy, just as I had envisaged. But that is reasonably rare.

I don't know what a painting is; who knows what sets off even the desire to paint? It might be things, thoughts, a memory, sensations, which have nothing to do directly with painting itself. They can come from anything and anywhere.

Every painting is a voyage into a sacred harbour.

See, when I paint, it is an experience that, at its best, is transcending reality.

Well, painting is the one thing I do, that is just me. It's me and easels, and the pencils. And as long as I don't drool too much over the canvas, the colors come out pretty good. And it's a chance to express all that I've got inside, that I sometimes keep hidden. And I think that's why I paint big broad, wide open landscapes.

I just wanted to be an artist. I didn't care how or what; I just wanted to express my artistic integrity, and I wanted the world to have a vision of what I was seeing in my mind.

Painting is an infinitely minute part of my personality.

I believe, I believe every day is a good day when you paint.

The painting has a life of its own. I try to let it come through.

When you are older, you realise that everything else is just nothing compared to painting and drawing.

You will see, in the future I will live by my watercolors.

When you create art, the world has to wait.

I felt I was painting with a Popsicle.

Painting is such an individual profession. I'm not performing. There's no audience.

I want to write. I want to direct. I want to produce - I want to inhabit what I think it means to fully be an artist.

From the beginning, I always felt artistically inclined. I always knew I wanted to be an artist of some sort, even if I didn't know what an artist was. I clung to the arts. I always watched 'High School Musical' and those type of things.

I love art so much because of curiosity. At the start of a painting, I know 10 percent of what the painting will be, and then I have to improvise the whole thing.

The people I feel inspired around draw pictures, they make paintings.

All I try to do is put as many colors as I can on the canvas every night.

My lens and my personality, it's just fluid. The art isn't just in one place.

I wanted to be a painter and an artist. And it's interesting that in some of my later musical works, I refer so often and associate myself with works of art.