Pierre Bonnard Quotes
When you forget everything, there only remains yourself - and that is not enough.
Terrasse, Antoine. Pierre Bonnard. Gallimard, 1967, p. 140.
President Kennedy was known for his personal activity at all levels of the State Department. Particularly exasperated at one point, he asked the assistant secretary what was wrong with the department.
Pierre Bonnard was a French painter, illustrator, and printmaker, known especially for the stylized decorative qualities of his paintings and his bold use of color. He was a founding member of the Post-Impressionist group of avant-garde painters Les Nabis, and his early work was strongly influenced by the work of Paul Gauguin, and the prints of Hokusai and other Japanese artists. He was a leading figure in the transition from impressionism to modernism. He painted landscapes, urban scenes, portraits and intimate domestic scenes, where the backgrounds, colors and painting style usually took precedence over the subject.
