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“A painting that is well composed is half finished.”

Quote by Pierre Bonnard

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Pierre Bonnard was a French painter known for his unique style and use of color. His works often depicted indoor scenes and female figures, characterized by their delicate and decorative quality. more

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“Drawing is feeling. Color is an act of reason.”

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“I am just beginning to understand what it is to paint. A painter should have two lives, one in which to learn, and one in which to practice his art.”

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“When I paint, I liberate monsters They are the manifestations of all the doubts, searches and groping for meaning and expression which all artists experience One does not choose the content, one submits to it.”

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“Enormous enlargements of an object or a fragment give it a personality it never had before, and in this way, it can become a vehicle of entirely new lyric and plastic power.”

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“The Beautiful is everywhere; perhaps more in the arrangement of your saucepans on the white walls of your kitchen than in your eighteenth-century living room or in the official museums.”

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