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Pierre Bonnard

"You cannot possibly invent painting all by yourself."

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"But when I worked on a painting I would do it from a drawing but I would put certain things I was fairly sure I wanted in the painting, and then collage on the painting with printed dots or painted paper or something before I really committed it."

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"Painting is the representation of visible forms. The essence of realism is its negation of the ideal."

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"Well, I have a very simple method of painting."

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"Painting is a hobby for me."

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"The craft of painting has virtually disappeared. There is hardly anyone left who really possesses it. For evidence one has only to look at the painters of this century."

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"Painting is a source of endless pleasure, but also of great anguish."

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"If I didn't start painting, I would have raised chickens."

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"Every song is like a painting."

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"I have sworn to die painting."

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"I'm not so facile that I can accomplish or find out what I want to know or explore enough of the possibilities and a way of making a painting, say, in just one painting or two paintings."

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