"I work in the mornings and in the afternoons I go to the Latin Quarter. It is a long way from the Batignolles distric…"

"My first pictures were done by instinct, the others with more method perhaps. Instinct which nourishes method can oft…"

"I should have sent you news of myself long ago, for I know how much pleasure one derives from a letter during one's f…"

"I have all my subjects to hand. I go back and look at them. I take notes. Then I go home. And before I start painting…"

"It would bother me if my canvases were stretched onto a frame. I never know in advance what dimensions I am going to …"

"Almost invariably he recognizes the precise point where his voluptuousness may be getting out of hand, where he needs…"

"Bonnard was the humorist among us; his nonchalant gaiety, his wit was evident in his pictures [many of daily-life in …"

"It's not just the colors that radiate in a Bonnard; there's also the heat of mixed emotions, rubbed into smoothness, …"

"In Bonnard's work, Impressionism becomes insipid and falls into decline."

"I desire, if by any possibility I should become a priest, to be a missionary, and if I am a missionary to be a martyr."