What does that represent? There was never any question in plastic art, in poetry, in music, of representing anything. It is a matter of making something beautiful, moving, or dramatic - this is by no means the same thing. — Fernand Leger Copy Share Image
Modern man lives more and more in a preponderantly geometric order. All human creation mechanical or industrial is dependent upon geometric intentions. — Fernand Leger Copy Share Image
I organize the opposition between colors, lines and curves. I set curves against straight lines, patches of color against plastic forms, pure colors against… — Fernand Leger Copy Share Image
Man needs color to live; it's just as necessary an element as fire and water. — Fernand Leger Copy Share Image
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… — Fernand Leger Copy Share Image
The craving for colour is a natural necessity just as for water and fire. Colour is a raw material indispensable to life. At every… — Fernand Leger Copy Share Image
Even a part of an object has value. A whole new realism resides in the way one envisages an object or one of its… — Fernand Leger Copy Share Image
Man needs colour to live; it's just as necessary an element as fire and water. — Fernand Leger Copy Share Image
The realistic value of a work is completely independent of its properties in terms of content. — Fernand Leger Copy Share Image
Enormous enlargements of an object or a fragment give it a personality it never had before, and in this way, it can become a… — Fernand Leger Copy Share Image
This truth must be recognized as a dogma and assume the validity of an axiom in the general understanding of painting — Fernand Leger Copy Share Image
The feat of superbly imitating a muscle, as Michelangelo did, or a face, as Raphael did, created neither progress nor a hierarchy in art.… — Fernand Leger Copy Share Image
