Fernand Leger Quotes

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• Man needs color to live; it's just as necessary an element as fire and water.
• 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…
• The realistic value of a work is completely independent of its properties in terms of content.
• Enormous enlargements of an object or a fragment give it a personality it never had before, and in this way, it can become a vehicle…
• 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 room…
• This truth must be recognized as a dogma and assume the validity of an axiom in the general understanding of painting
• Above all, it is a matter of loving art, not understanding it.
• The feat of superbly imitating a muscle, as Michelangelo did, or a face, as Raphael did, created neither progress nor a hierarchy in art. Because…
• I organize the opposition between colors, lines and curves. I set curves against straight lines, patches of color against plastic forms, pure colors against subtly…
• Even a part of an object has value. A whole new realism resides in the way one envisages an object or one of its parts.

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