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

"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 …"

"[Bonnard] catches fleeting poses, steals unconscious gestures, crystallises the most transient expressions."

"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."