Auto-retrato, no dia do livro, sobre a pintura, por um fotógrafo

He [Cartier-Bresson] settles into a room of Bonnards and relates one of his favorite anedoctes about the time he photographed Bonnard. It involves the importance of intuition. In 1944, he says, he stayed with Matisse at Vence, then for a week with Bonnard at Le Cannet. "We were chatting, and mostly he was quite silent," he says of Bonnard. "Suddenly, when I raised my camera, he put his scarf over his face. So I put my camera down. Finally, I managed to take a picture and he asked, "But why did you take it at that moment, why?" And I said, "Excuse me, but why have you just put that yellow there?"

[...]"You know Picasso didn't like Bonnard, and I can imagine why, because Picasso has no tenderness. [...] To me, he [Bonnard] is the great painter of the century. Picasso was a genius, but that is something quite different."

MICHAEL KIMMELMAN, Portraits. Talking to Artists at the Met, the Modern, the Louvre and Elsewhere,The Modern Library, NY, 1999, pp. 131-132.