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title: "2 Man needs Quotes By Fernand Leger"
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> [Man needs color to live; it's just as necessary an element as fire and water.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fernand-leger/man-needs-color-to-live-it-s-just-as-necessary-an-element-as-fire-and/)

[Fernand Leger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/fernand-leger/)

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> [Man needs colour to live; it's just as necessary an element as fire and water.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fernand-leger/man-needs-colour-to-live-it-s-just-as-necessary-an-element-as-fire/)

[Fernand Leger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/fernand-leger/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9b8/fernand-leger-32284_colour_man-needs-colour-to-live-it-s-just-as-ne_1647037.jpg)

## Other authors on Man needs

## More by Fernand Leger

> [Modern man lives more and more in a preponderantly geometric order. All human creation mechanical or industrial is dependent upon geometric intentions.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fernand-leger/modern-man-lives-more-and-more-in-a-preponderantly-geometric-order/)

[Fernand Leger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/fernand-leger/)

> [I organize the opposition between colors, lines and curves. I set curves against straight lines, patches of color against plastic forms, pure colors against…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fernand-leger/i-organize-the-opposition-between-colors-lines-and-curves-i-set/)

[Fernand Leger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/fernand-leger/)

> [Man needs color to live; it's just as necessary an element as fire and water.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fernand-leger/man-needs-color-to-live-it-s-just-as-necessary-an-element-as-fire-and/)

[Fernand Leger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/fernand-leger/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fernand-leger/the-beautiful-is-everywhere-perhaps-more-in-the-arrangement-of-your/)

[Fernand Leger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/fernand-leger/)

> [The craving for colour is a natural necessity just as for water and fire. Colour is a raw material indispensable to life. At every…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fernand-leger/the-craving-for-colour-is-a-natural-necessity-just-as-for-water-and/)

[Fernand Leger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/fernand-leger/)

> [Above all, it is a matter of loving art, not understanding it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fernand-leger/above-all-it-is-a-matter-of-loving-art-not-understanding-it/)

[Fernand Leger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/fernand-leger/)

> [Even a part of an object has value. A whole new realism resides in the way one envisages an object or one of its…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fernand-leger/even-a-part-of-an-object-has-value-a-whole-new-realism-resides-in-the/)

[Fernand Leger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/fernand-leger/)

> [Man needs colour to live; it's just as necessary an element as fire and water.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fernand-leger/man-needs-colour-to-live-it-s-just-as-necessary-an-element-as-fire/)

[Fernand Leger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/fernand-leger/)

> [The realistic value of a work is completely independent of its properties in terms of content.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fernand-leger/the-realistic-value-of-a-work-is-completely-independent-of-its/)

[Fernand Leger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/fernand-leger/)

> [Enormous enlargements of an object or a fragment give it a personality it never had before, and in this way, it can become a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fernand-leger/enormous-enlargements-of-an-object-or-a-fragment-give-it-a/)

[Fernand Leger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/fernand-leger/)

> [This truth must be recognized as a dogma and assume the validity of an axiom in the general understanding of painting](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fernand-leger/this-truth-must-be-recognized-as-a-dogma-and-assume-the-validity-of/)

[Fernand Leger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/fernand-leger/)

> [The feat of superbly imitating a muscle, as Michelangelo did, or a face, as Raphael did, created neither progress nor a hierarchy in art.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fernand-leger/the-feat-of-superbly-imitating-a-muscle-as-michelangelo-did-or-a-face/)

[Fernand Leger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/fernand-leger/)

> [Colour is a human need like water and fire. It is a raw material indispensable to life](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fernand-leger/colour-is-a-human-need-like-water-and-fire-it-is-a-raw-material/)

[Fernand Leger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/fernand-leger/)

> [What does that represent? There was never any question in plastic art, in poetry, in music, of representing anything. It is a matter of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fernand-leger/what-does-that-represent-there-was-never-any-question-in-plastic-art/)

[Fernand Leger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/fernand-leger/)

> [“A modern man registers a hundred times more sensory impressions than an eighteenth-century artist”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fernand-leger/a-modern-man-registers-a-hundred-times-more-sensory-impressions-than/)

[Fernand Leger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/fernand-leger/)

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